From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
Kyle Lucke <klucke@us.ibm.com>,
Raghavendra Koushik <raghavendra.koushik@neterion.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [BUG] RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlocks
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:27:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070214132729.479793ac@freekitty> (raw)
Ben found this but the problem seems pretty widespread.
The following places are subject to deadlock between flush_scheduled_work
and the RTNL mutex. What can happen is that a work queue routine (like
bridge port_carrier_check) is waiting forever for RTNL, and the driver
routine has called flush_scheduled_work with RTNL held and is waiting
for the work queue to clear.
Several other places have comments like: "can't call flush_scheduled_work
here or it will deadlock". Most of the problem places are in device close
routine. My recommendation would be to add a check for device netif_running in
what ever work routine is used, and move the flush_scheduled_work to the
remove routine.
8139too.c: rtl8139_close --> rtl8139_stop_thread
r8169.c: rtl8169_down
cassini.c: cas_change_mtu
iseries_veth.c: veth_stop_connection
s2io.c: s2io_close
sis190.c: sis190_down
next reply other threads:[~2007-02-14 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 21:27 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-02-14 21:44 ` [BUG] RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlocks Ben Greear
2007-02-14 23:54 ` Francois Romieu
2007-02-15 18:58 ` Ben Greear
2007-02-15 22:37 ` [PATCH 1/4] r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock Francois Romieu
2007-02-20 16:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-15 22:37 ` [PATCH 2/4] sis190: " Francois Romieu
2007-02-15 22:37 ` [PATCH 3/4] 8139too: " Francois Romieu
2007-02-16 7:59 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-16 20:20 ` Francois Romieu
2007-02-16 20:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-17 20:54 ` Francois Romieu
2007-02-19 12:05 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-19 21:08 ` Francois Romieu
2007-04-04 23:38 ` Ben Greear
2007-04-05 11:17 ` Francois Romieu
2007-02-15 22:37 ` [PATCH 4/4] s2io: " Francois Romieu
2007-02-16 7:29 ` [BUG] RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlocks Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-16 7:40 ` Ben Greear
2007-02-16 8:10 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-16 8:23 ` Ben Greear
2007-02-16 9:04 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-16 12:12 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-16 16:06 ` Ben Greear
2007-02-20 8:23 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-16 18:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-02-16 19:04 ` Ben Greear
2007-02-19 6:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-19 6:27 ` Ben Greear
2007-02-19 7:11 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-19 7:40 ` Jarek Poplawski
2007-03-05 8:36 ` [PATCH v.2] " Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-19 6:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] " Jarek Poplawski
2007-02-19 7:18 ` Jarek Poplawski
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