Patch "IB/ipoib: Fix deadlock over vlan_mutex" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    IB/ipoib: Fix deadlock over vlan_mutex

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ib-ipoib-fix-deadlock-over-vlan_mutex.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Thu Oct  5 10:58:04 CEST 2017
From: Feras Daoud <ferasda@mellanox.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:47:22 +0200
Subject: IB/ipoib: Fix deadlock over vlan_mutex

From: Feras Daoud <ferasda@mellanox.com>


[ Upstream commit 1c3098cdb05207e740715857df7b0998e372f527 ]

This patch fixes Deadlock while executing ipoib_vlan_delete.

The function takes the vlan_rwsem semaphore and calls
unregister_netdevice. The later function calls
ipoib_mcast_stop_thread that cause workqueue flush.

When the queue has one of the ipoib_ib_dev_flush_xxx events,
a deadlock occur because these events also tries to catch the
same vlan_rwsem semaphore.

To fix, unregister_netdevice should be called after releasing
the semaphore.

Fixes: cbbe1efa4972 ("IPoIB: Fix deadlock between ipoib_open() and child interface create")
Signed-off-by: Feras Daoud <ferasda@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Vesker <valex@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c
@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ int ipoib_vlan_delete(struct net_device
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(priv, tpriv, &ppriv->child_intfs, list) {
 		if (priv->pkey == pkey &&
 		    priv->child_type == IPOIB_LEGACY_CHILD) {
-			unregister_netdevice(priv->dev);
 			list_del(&priv->list);
 			dev = priv->dev;
 			break;
@@ -195,6 +194,11 @@ int ipoib_vlan_delete(struct net_device
 	}
 	up_write(&ppriv->vlan_rwsem);
 
+	if (dev) {
+		ipoib_dbg(ppriv, "delete child vlan %s\n", dev->name);
+		unregister_netdevice(dev);
+	}
+
 	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	if (dev) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ferasda@mellanox.com are

queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-replace-list_del-of-the-neigh-list-with-list_del_init.patch
queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-rtnl_unlock-can-not-come-after-free_netdev.patch
queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-fix-deadlock-over-vlan_mutex.patch