From a77a57a1a22afc31891d95879fe3cf2ab03838b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roland Dreier Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:32 -0700 Subject: IPoIB: Fix deadlock on RTNL in ipoib_stop() Commit c8c2afe3 ("IPoIB: Use rtnl lock/unlock when changing device flags") added a call to rtnl_lock() in ipoib_mcast_join_task(), which is run from the ipoib_workqueue. However, ipoib_stop() (which is run inside rtnl_lock()) flushes this workqueue, which leads to a deadlock if the join task is pending. Fix this by simply not flushing the workqueue from ipoib_stop(). It turns out that we really don't care about workqueue tasks running during or after ipoib_stop(), as long as we make sure to flush the workqueue before unregistering a netdev. This fixes . Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 19 +++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c') diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c index f51201b17bfd..7e9e218738fa 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c @@ -156,14 +156,8 @@ static int ipoib_stop(struct net_device *dev) netif_stop_queue(dev); - /* - * Now flush workqueue to make sure a scheduled task doesn't - * bring our internal state back up. - */ - flush_workqueue(ipoib_workqueue); - - ipoib_ib_dev_down(dev, 1); - ipoib_ib_dev_stop(dev, 1); + ipoib_ib_dev_down(dev, 0); + ipoib_ib_dev_stop(dev, 0); if (!test_bit(IPOIB_FLAG_SUBINTERFACE, &priv->flags)) { struct ipoib_dev_priv *cpriv; @@ -1314,7 +1308,7 @@ sysfs_failed: register_failed: ib_unregister_event_handler(&priv->event_handler); - flush_scheduled_work(); + flush_workqueue(ipoib_workqueue); event_failed: ipoib_dev_cleanup(priv->dev); @@ -1373,7 +1367,12 @@ static void ipoib_remove_one(struct ib_device *device) list_for_each_entry_safe(priv, tmp, dev_list, list) { ib_unregister_event_handler(&priv->event_handler); - flush_scheduled_work(); + + rtnl_lock(); + dev_change_flags(priv->dev, priv->dev->flags & ~IFF_UP); + rtnl_unlock(); + + flush_workqueue(ipoib_workqueue); unregister_netdev(priv->dev); ipoib_dev_cleanup(priv->dev); -- cgit v1.2.3