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    net: core: device_rename: Use rwsem instead of a seqcount · 11d6011c
    Ahmed S. Darwish authored
    Sequence counters write paths are critical sections that must never be
    preempted, and blocking, even for CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, is not allowed.
    
    Commit 5dbe7c17 ("net: fix kernel deadlock with interface rename and
    netdev name retrieval.") handled a deadlock, observed with
    CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, where the devnet_rename seqcount read side was
    infinitely spinning: it got scheduled after the seqcount write side
    blocked inside its own critical section.
    
    To fix that deadlock, among other issues, the commit added a
    cond_resched() inside the read side section. While this will get the
    non-preemptible kernel eventually unstuck, the seqcount reader is fully
    exhausting its slice just spinning -- until TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set.
    
    The fix is also still broken: if the seqcount reader belongs to a
    real-time scheduling policy, it can spin forever and the kernel will
    livelock.
    
    Disabling preemption over the seqcount write side critical section will
    not work: inside it are a number of GFP_KERNEL allocations and mutex
    locking through the drivers/base/ :: device_rename() call chain.
    
    >From all the above, replace the seqcount with a rwsem.
    
    Fixes: 5dbe7c17 (net: fix kernel deadlock with interface rename and netdev name retrieval.)
    Fixes: 30e6c9fa (net: devnet_rename_seq should be a seqcount)
    Fixes: c91f6df2 (sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name)
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> [ v1 missing up_read() on error exit ]
    Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> [ v1 missing up_read() on error exit ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAhmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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