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From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
To: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, rds-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rds: avoid lock hierarchy violation between m_rs_lock and rs_recv_lock
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 18:18:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180808221811.GA16895@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <392e9286-e98c-1dbe-d598-9afca1818cf6@oracle.com>

On (08/08/18 14:51), Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> This bug doesn't make sense since two different transports are using
> same socket (Loop and rds_tcp) and running together.
> For same transport, such race can't happen with MSG_ON_SOCK flag.
> CPU1-> rds_loop_inc_free
> CPU0 -> rds_tcp_cork ...
> 

The test is just reporting a lock hierarchy violation

As far as I can tell, this wasn't an actual deadlock that happened
because as you point out, either a socket has the rds_tcp transport
or the rds_loop transport, so this particular pair of stack traces
would not happen with the code as it exists today.

but there is a valid lock hierachy violation here, and
imho it's a good idea to get that cleaned up. 

It also avoids needlessly  holding down the rs_recv_lock
when doing an rds_inc_put.

--Sowmini

  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-09  0:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-08 20:57 [PATCH net-next] rds: avoid lock hierarchy violation between m_rs_lock and rs_recv_lock Sowmini Varadhan
2018-08-08 21:51 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2018-08-08 22:18   ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2018-08-08 22:37     ` Santosh Shilimkar
2018-08-11 18:22 ` David Miller

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