net/smc: Resolve the race between SMC-R link access and clear
We encountered some crashes caused by the race between SMC-R link access and link clear that triggered by abnormal link group termination, such as port error. Here is an example of this kind of crashes: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc] RIP: 0010:smc_llc_flow_initiate+0x44/0x190 [smc] Call Trace: <TASK> ? __smc_buf_create+0x75a/0x950 [smc] smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs+0x2a/0xbf [smc] smc_listen_work+0xf72/0x1230 [smc] ? process_one_work+0x25c/0x600 process_one_work+0x25c/0x600 worker_thread+0x4f/0x3a0 ? process_one_work+0x600/0x600 kthread+0x15d/0x1a0 ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 </TASK> smc_listen_work() __smc_lgr_terminate() --------------------------------------------------------------- | smc_lgr_free() | |- smcr_link_clear() | |- memset(lnk, 0) smc_listen_rdma_reg() | |- smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs() | |- smc_llc_flow_initiate() | |- access lnk->lgr (panic) | These crashes are similarly caused by clearing SMC-R link resources when some functions is still accessing to them. This patch tries to fix the issue by introducing reference count of SMC-R links and ensuring that the sensitive resources of links won't be cleared until reference count reaches zero. The operation to the SMC-R link reference count can be concluded as follows: object [hold or initialized as 1] [put] -------------------------------------------------------------------- links smcr_link_init() smcr_link_clear() connections smc_conn_create() smc_conn_free() Through this way, the clear of SMC-R links is later than the free of all the smc connections above it, thus avoiding the unsafe reference to SMC-R links. Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Showing
Please register or sign in to comment