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From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>, Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rtnl_mutex deadlock?
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 01:58:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C3F497.6020003@iogearbox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150806234117.GA22588@gondor.apana.org.au>

On 08/07/2015 01:41 AM, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 04:50:39PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>
>> Then, in __rhashtable_insert_fast(), I could trigger an -EBUSY when I'm
>> really unlucky and exceed the ht->elasticity limit of 16. I would then
>> end up in rhashtable_insert_rehash() to find out there's already one
>> ongoing and thus, I'm getting -EBUSY via __netlink_insert().
>
> Right, so the only way you can trigger this is if you hit a chain
> longer than 16 and the number of entries in the table is less than
> 75% the size of the table, as well as there being an existing resize
> or rehash operation.
>
> This should be pretty much impossible.
>
> But if we had a WARN_ON_ONCE there then we'll know for sure.

Looks like we had a WARN_ON() in rhashtable_insert_rehash() before, but
was removed in a87b9ebf1709 ("rhashtable: Do not schedule more than one
rehash if we can't grow further"). Do you want to re-add a WARN_ON_ONCE()?

Thanks,
Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-06 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-04 15:48 rtnl_mutex deadlock? Linus Torvalds
2015-08-05  5:31 ` Cong Wang
2015-08-05  7:43   ` Jiri Pirko
2015-08-05  8:44     ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-05 18:59       ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-08-06  0:30         ` Herbert Xu
2015-08-06 14:50           ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-08-06 22:39             ` Daniel Borkmann
2015-08-06 23:42               ` Herbert Xu
2015-08-06 23:41             ` Herbert Xu
2015-08-06 23:58               ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]
2015-08-07  0:00                 ` Herbert Xu
2015-08-08 17:22                   ` Thomas Graf
2015-08-06  5:19         ` Herbert Xu

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