[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "ipv6: addrconf: Fix recursive spin lock call" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ipv6: addrconf: Fix recursive spin lock call

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt16.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: "subashab at codeaurora.org" <subashab at codeaurora.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 02:11:10 +0000
Subject: ipv6: addrconf: Fix recursive spin lock call

[ Upstream commit 16186a82de1fdd868255448274e64ae2616e2640 ]

A rcu stall with the following backtrace was seen on a system with
forwarding, optimistic_dad and use_optimistic set. To reproduce,
set these flags and allow ipv6 autoconf.

This occurs because the device write_lock is acquired while already
holding the read_lock. Back trace below -

INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU { 1}  (t=2100 jiffies
 g=3992 c=3991 q=4471)
<6> Task dump for CPU 1:
<2> kworker/1:0     R  running task    12168    15   2 0x00000002
<2> Workqueue: ipv6_addrconf addrconf_dad_work
<6> Call trace:
<2> [<ffffffc000084da8>] el1_irq+0x68/0xdc
<2> [<ffffffc000cc4e0c>] _raw_write_lock_bh+0x20/0x30
<2> [<ffffffc000bc5dd8>] __ipv6_dev_ac_inc+0x64/0x1b4
<2> [<ffffffc000bcbd2c>] addrconf_join_anycast+0x9c/0xc4
<2> [<ffffffc000bcf9f0>] __ipv6_ifa_notify+0x160/0x29c
<2> [<ffffffc000bcfb7c>] ipv6_ifa_notify+0x50/0x70
<2> [<ffffffc000bd035c>] addrconf_dad_work+0x314/0x334
<2> [<ffffffc0000b64c8>] process_one_work+0x244/0x3fc
<2> [<ffffffc0000b7324>] worker_thread+0x2f8/0x418
<2> [<ffffffc0000bb40c>] kthread+0xe0/0xec

v2: do addrconf_dad_kick inside read lock and then acquire write
lock for ipv6_ifa_notify as suggested by Eric

Fixes: 7fd2561e4ebdd ("net: ipv6: Add a sysctl to make optimistic
addresses useful candidates")

Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Cc: Erik Kline <ek at google.com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab at codeaurora.org>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index ece842c..e0ffd02 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -3214,6 +3214,7 @@ static void addrconf_dad_begin(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
 {
 	struct inet6_dev *idev = ifp->idev;
 	struct net_device *dev = idev->dev;
+	bool notify = false;

 	addrconf_join_solict(dev, &ifp->addr);

@@ -3259,7 +3260,7 @@ static void addrconf_dad_begin(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
 			/* Because optimistic nodes can use this address,
 			 * notify listeners. If DAD fails, RTM_DELADDR is sent.
 			 */
-			ipv6_ifa_notify(RTM_NEWADDR, ifp);
+			notify = true;
 		}
 	}

@@ -3267,6 +3268,8 @@ static void addrconf_dad_begin(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
 out:
 	spin_unlock(&ifp->lock);
 	read_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);
+	if (notify)
+		ipv6_ifa_notify(RTM_NEWADDR, ifp);
 }

 static void addrconf_dad_start(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
--
2.7.0