From: Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: syzbot <syzbot+846bb38dc67fe62cc733@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, horms@kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [syzbot] [net?] possible deadlock in rtnl_newlink
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 09:45:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aDiPFiLrhUI0M2MI@mini-arch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250529091003.3423378b@kernel.org>
On 05/29, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2025 08:59:43 -0700 Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> > So this is internal WQ entry lock that is being reordered with rtnl
> > lock. But looking at process_one_work, I don't see actual locks, mostly
> > lock_map_acquire/lock_map_release calls to enforce some internal WQ
> > invariants. Not sure what to do with it, will try to read more.
>
> Basically a flush_work() happens while holding rtnl_lock,
> but the work itself takes that lock. It's a driver bug.
e400c7444d84 ("e1000: Hold RTNL when e1000_down can be called") ?
I think similar things (but wrt netdev instance lock) are happening
with iavf: iavf_remove calls cancel_work_sync while holding the
instance lock and the work callbacks grab the instance lock as well :-/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-29 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-29 10:32 [syzbot] [net?] possible deadlock in rtnl_newlink syzbot
2025-05-29 15:59 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2025-05-29 16:10 ` Jakub Kicinski
2025-05-29 16:45 ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]
2025-05-29 23:54 ` Joe Damato
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