[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ifb: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ifb: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 83aae33e1067550f315f3e9e4f025f885a895192 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dingtianhong <dingtianhong at huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:04:02 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ifb: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls

commit 440d57bc5ff55ec1efb3efc9cbe9420b4bbdfefa upstream.

According to the commit 16b0dc29c1af9df341428f4c49ada4f626258082
(dummy: fix rcu_sched self-detected stalls)

Eric Dumazet fix the problem in dummy, but the ifb will occur the
same problem like the dummy modules.

Trying to "modprobe ifb numifbs=30000" triggers :

INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU

After this splat, RTNL is locked and reboot is needed.

We must call cond_resched() to avoid this, even holding RTNL.

Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong at huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ifb.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ifb.c b/drivers/net/ifb.c
index 344dceb..04ab337 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ifb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ifb.c
@@ -291,8 +291,10 @@ static int __init ifb_init_module(void)
 	rtnl_lock();
 	err = __rtnl_link_register(&ifb_link_ops);

-	for (i = 0; i < numifbs && !err; i++)
+	for (i = 0; i < numifbs && !err; i++) {
 		err = ifb_init_one(i);
+		cond_resched();
+	}
 	if (err)
 		__rtnl_link_unregister(&ifb_link_ops);
 	rtnl_unlock();
--
1.8.1.2