Re: [hyperv] BUG at drivers/hv/channel.c:462 while changing MTU

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:34:27PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@oracle.com]
> > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 2:37 AM
> > To: Sitsofe Wheeler
> > Cc: KY Srinivasan; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Jason Wang; linux-
> > kernel@vger.kernel.org; David S. Miller; Daniel Borkmann;
> > netdev@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; Haiyang Zhang
> > Subject: Re: [hyperv] BUG at drivers/hv/channel.c:462 while changing MTU
> > 
> > The code here is:
> > 
> > drivers/hv/channel.c
> >    460          BUG_ON(ret != 0);
> >    461          t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&info->waitevent, 5*HZ);
> >    462          BUG_ON(t == 0);
> > 
> > So it calls BUG_ON() if the teardown takes more than 5 seconds.  It's most
> > likely that there is a race condition somewhere.  It's also possible that it's just
> > taking longer than 5 seconds for some odd reason and the bug would go
> > away if we raised it to 60 seconds.
> > 
> > BUG_ON() after 5 seconds seems like a very aggressive thing.
> 
> Dan,
> 
> I am going to audit all BUG_ON() instances.

Please remove them all, no kernel driver should ever crash the kernel
and not give a user a chance to recover :(

thanks,

greg k-h