hv_netvsc: avoid deadlocks between rtnl lock and vf_use_cnt wait
Here is a deadlock scenario: - netvsc_vf_up() schedules netvsc_notify_peers() work and quits. - netvsc_vf_down() runs before netvsc_notify_peers() gets executed. As it is being executed from netdev notifier chain we hold rtnl lock when we get here. - we enter while (atomic_read(&net_device_ctx->vf_use_cnt) != 0) loop and wait till netvsc_notify_peers() drops vf_use_cnt. - netvsc_notify_peers() starts on some other CPU but netdev_notify_peers() will hang on rtnl_lock(). - deadlock! Instead of introducing additional synchronization I suggest we drop gwrk.dwrk completely and call NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS directly. As we're acting under rtnl lock this is legitimate. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Acked-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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