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[V2,09/11] drivers: infiniband: hw: Fix deadlock in irdma_cleanup_cm_core()

Message ID 20220407152150.19971-1-duoming@zju.edu.cn (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series None | expand

Commit Message

Duoming Zhou April 7, 2022, 3:21 p.m. UTC
There is a deadlock in irdma_cleanup_cm_core(), which is shown
below:

   (Thread 1)              |      (Thread 2)
                           | irdma_schedule_cm_timer()
irdma_cleanup_cm_core()    |  add_timer()
 spin_lock_irqsave() //(1) |  (wait a time)
 ...                       | irdma_cm_timer_tick()
 del_timer_sync()          |  spin_lock_irqsave() //(2)
 (wait timer to stop)      |  ...

We hold cm_core->ht_lock in position (1) of thread 1 and
use del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler
also need cm_core->ht_lock in position (2) of thread 2.
As a result, irdma_cleanup_cm_core() will block forever.

This patch removes the check of timer_pending(), because
the del_timer_sync() function will just return directly
if there isn't a pending lock. As a result, the lock is
redundant, because there is no resource it could protect.

Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@zju.edu.cn>
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Changes in V2:
  - Remove the check of timer_pending().
  - Remove the redundant lock.

 drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/cm.c | 5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/cm.c
index dedb3b7edd8..4b6b1065f85 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/cm.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/irdma/cm.c
@@ -3251,10 +3251,7 @@  void irdma_cleanup_cm_core(struct irdma_cm_core *cm_core)
 	if (!cm_core)
 		return;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&cm_core->ht_lock, flags);
-	if (timer_pending(&cm_core->tcp_timer))
-		del_timer_sync(&cm_core->tcp_timer);
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cm_core->ht_lock, flags);
+	del_timer_sync(&cm_core->tcp_timer);
 
 	destroy_workqueue(cm_core->event_wq);
 	cm_core->dev->ws_reset(&cm_core->iwdev->vsi);