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From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Chengfeng Ye <dg573847474@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: fix potential deadlock on &kcs_bmc->lock
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 09:27:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZKQsY3DXXDbxy0om@mail.minyard.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9691d898-22a9-4902-871d-73f5dafabf86@app.fastmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 10:31:02AM +0930, Andrew Jeffery wrote:
> Hi Corey, Chengfeng,
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2023, at 21:17, Corey Minyard wrote:
> > Indeed, this looks like an issue.
> >
> > Andrew, any opinions on this?  The attached patch will work, the other
> > option would be to disable interrupts when calling
> > kcs_bmc_handle_event() in the timer handler.  But then you have to worry
> > about RT.
> 
> Right, I think we'd do best to not over-complicate things.
> spin_lock_irq{save,restore}() are the intuitive choice to me.
> 
> I'll follow up with R-b/T-b tags once I've booted the patch
> and done some testing.

Thanks.  This is in my for-next tree, I'd like to get this in the merge
window, which I believe ends this Sunday.

> >> This flaw was found using an experimental static analysis tool we are
> >> developing for irq-related deadlock.

Will this tool be available for general use?  It's obviously quite
handy.

-corey

  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-04 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-27 15:24 [PATCH] ipmi: fix potential deadlock on &kcs_bmc->lock Chengfeng Ye
2023-06-28 11:47 ` Corey Minyard
2023-06-30  1:01   ` Andrew Jeffery
2023-07-04 14:27     ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2023-07-04 16:25       ` Chengfeng Ye
2023-07-05 12:00       ` Andrew Jeffery
2023-07-19 18:37         ` Chengfeng Ye

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