Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Aug 2014 10:50:29 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [hyperv] BUG at drivers/hv/channel.c:462 while changing MTU |
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 05:34:27PM +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dan Carpenter [mailto:dan.carpenter@oracle.com] > > Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 2:37 AM > > To: Sitsofe Wheeler > > Cc: KY Srinivasan; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Jason Wang; linux- > > kernel@vger.kernel.org; David S. Miller; Daniel Borkmann; > > netdev@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; Haiyang Zhang > > Subject: Re: [hyperv] BUG at drivers/hv/channel.c:462 while changing MTU > > > > The code here is: > > > > drivers/hv/channel.c > > 460 BUG_ON(ret != 0); > > 461 t = wait_for_completion_timeout(&info->waitevent, 5*HZ); > > 462 BUG_ON(t == 0); > > > > So it calls BUG_ON() if the teardown takes more than 5 seconds. It's most > > likely that there is a race condition somewhere. It's also possible that it's just > > taking longer than 5 seconds for some odd reason and the bug would go > > away if we raised it to 60 seconds. > > > > BUG_ON() after 5 seconds seems like a very aggressive thing. > > Dan, > > I am going to audit all BUG_ON() instances.
Please remove them all, no kernel driver should ever crash the kernel and not give a user a chance to recover :(
thanks,
greg k-h
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