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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: prevent new subchannel creation on device shutdown
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Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> writes:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vitaly Kuznetsov
>> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2015 20:19
>> Subject: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: prevent new subchannel creation on device
>> shutdown
>>
>> When a new subchannel offer from host comes during device shutdown (e.g.
>> when a netvsc/storvsc module is unloadedshortly after it was loaded) a
>> crash can happen as vmbus_process_offer() is not anyhow serialized with
>> vmbus_remove().
>
> How about vmbus_onoffer_rescind()?
> It's not serialized with vmbus_remove() either, so I think there is an issue too?
>
> I remember when 'rmmod hv_netvsc', we get a rescind-offer message for
> each subchannel.
>

True, I think we have a race with rescind messages as well, we just
never saw crashes for some reason. I'll think how we can make the fix
more general.

>> As an example we can try calling subchannel create
>> callback when the module is already unloaded.
>> The following crash was observed while keeping loading/unloading hv_netvsc
>> module on 64-CPU guest:
>>
>> hv_netvsc vmbus_14: net device safe to remove
>> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000000a118
>> IP: [<ffffffffa01c1b21>] netvsc_sc_open+0x31/0xb0 [hv_netvsc]
>> PGD 1f3946a067 PUD 1f38a5f067 PMD 0
>> Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
>> ...
>> Call Trace:
>> [<ffffffffa0055cd7>] vmbus_onoffer+0x477/0x530 [hv_vmbus]
>> [<ffffffff81092e1f>] ? move_linked_works+0x5f/0x80
>> [<ffffffffa0055fd3>] vmbus_onmessage+0x33/0xa0 [hv_vmbus]
>> [<ffffffffa0052f81>] vmbus_onmessage_work+0x21/0x30 [hv_vmbus]
>> [<ffffffff81095cde>] process_one_work+0x18e/0x4e0
>> ...
>>
>> The issue cannot be solved by just resetting sc_creation_callback on
>> driver removal as while we search for the parent channel with channel_lock
>> held we release it after the channel was found and it can disapper beneath
>> our feet while we're still in vmbus_process_offer();
>>
>> Introduce new sc_create_lock mutex and take it in vmbus_remove() to ensure
>> no new subchannels are created after we started the removal procedure.
>> Check its state with mutex_trylock in vmbus_process_offer().
>
> In my 8-CPU VM, I can very easily reproduce the panic by
> 1. running
> while ((1)); do modprobe -r hv_netvsc; modprobe hv_netvsc; sleep 10; done.
>
> and
> 2. in vmbus_onoffer_rescind(), we sleep 3s after a subchannel is added into
> the primary channel's sc_list (and before the sc_creation_callback is invoked):
> (I added line 275)
>
> 262 if (!fnew) {
> 263 /*
> 264 * Check to see if this is a sub-channel.
> 265 */
> 266 if (newchannel->offermsg.offer.sub_channel_index != 0) {
> 267 /*
> 268 * Process the sub-channel.
> 269 */
> 270 newchannel->primary_channel = channel;
> 271 spin_lock_irqsave(&channel->lock, flags);
> 272 list_add_tail(&newchannel->sc_list, &channel->sc_list);
> 273 channel->num_sc++;
> 274 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&channel->lock, flags);
> 275 ssleep(3);
> 276 } else
> 277 goto err_free_chan;
> 278 }

It is possible to see crashes even without such intrumentation, move
CPUs and slower host will do the job.

Thanks,

--
Vitaly


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