[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "IB/mlx4: Fix potential deadlock when sending mad to wire" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Sep 28 17:32:13 UTC 2015


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

    IB/mlx4: Fix potential deadlock when sending mad to wire

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt18.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 39f46fbb93de7d09d48b3546e49a847a4aef5656 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm at dev.mellanox.co.il>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 17:34:21 +0300
Subject: IB/mlx4: Fix potential deadlock when sending mad to wire

commit 90c1d8b6350cca9d8a234f03c77a317a7613bcee upstream.

send_mad_to_wire takes the same spinlock that is taken in
the interrupt context.  Therefore, it needs irqsave/restore.

Fixes: b9c5d6a64358 ('IB/mlx4: Add multicast group (MCG) paravirtualization for SR-IOV')
Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm at dev.mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mcg.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mcg.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mcg.c
index ed327e6c8fdc..a0559a8af4f4 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mcg.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mcg.c
@@ -206,15 +206,16 @@ static int send_mad_to_wire(struct mlx4_ib_demux_ctx *ctx, struct ib_mad *mad)
 {
 	struct mlx4_ib_dev *dev = ctx->dev;
 	struct ib_ah_attr	ah_attr;
+	unsigned long flags;

-	spin_lock(&dev->sm_lock);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->sm_lock, flags);
 	if (!dev->sm_ah[ctx->port - 1]) {
 		/* port is not yet Active, sm_ah not ready */
-		spin_unlock(&dev->sm_lock);
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->sm_lock, flags);
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	}
 	mlx4_ib_query_ah(dev->sm_ah[ctx->port - 1], &ah_attr);
-	spin_unlock(&dev->sm_lock);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->sm_lock, flags);
 	return mlx4_ib_send_to_wire(dev, mlx4_master_func_num(dev->dev),
 				    ctx->port, IB_QPT_GSI, 0, 1, IB_QP1_QKEY,
 				    &ah_attr, NULL, mad);




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