[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 165/183] IB/core: Fix deadlock on uverbs modify_qp error flow

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Mar 6 09:57:36 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt8 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Moshe Lazer <moshel at mellanox.com>

commit 0fb8bcf022f19a375d7c4bd79ac513da8ae6d78b upstream.

The deadlock occurs in __uverbs_modify_qp: we take a lock (idr_read_qp)
and in case of failure in ib_resolve_eth_l2_attrs we don't release
it (put_qp_read).  Fix that.

Fixes: ed4c54e5b4ba ("IB/core: Resolve Ethernet L2 addresses when modifying QP")
Signed-off-by: Moshe Lazer <moshel at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland at purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
index 23467a2abd62..2adc14372b94 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c
@@ -1964,20 +1964,21 @@ ssize_t ib_uverbs_modify_qp(struct ib_uverbs_file *file,
 	if (qp->real_qp == qp) {
 		ret = ib_resolve_eth_l2_attrs(qp, attr, &cmd.attr_mask);
 		if (ret)
-			goto out;
+			goto release_qp;
 		ret = qp->device->modify_qp(qp, attr,
 			modify_qp_mask(qp->qp_type, cmd.attr_mask), &udata);
 	} else {
 		ret = ib_modify_qp(qp, attr, modify_qp_mask(qp->qp_type, cmd.attr_mask));
 	}
 
-	put_qp_read(qp);
-
 	if (ret)
-		goto out;
+		goto release_qp;
 
 	ret = in_len;
 
+release_qp:
+	put_qp_read(qp);
+
 out:
 	kfree(attr);
 




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