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There is an ABBA deadlock between net device unregistration and sysfs files being accessed[1][2]. To prevent this from happening all paths taking the rtnl lock after the sysfs one (actually kn->active refcount) use rtnl_trylock and return early (using restart_syscall)[3], which can make syscalls to spin for a long time when there is contention on the rtnl lock[4]. There are not many possibilities to improve the above: - Rework the entire net/ locking logic. - Invert two locks in one of the paths — not possible. But here it's actually possible to drop one of the locks safely: the kernfs_node refcount. More details in the code itself, which comes with lots of comments. Note that we check the device is alive in the added sysfs_rtnl_lock helper to disallow sysfs operations to run after device dismantle has started. This also help keeping the same behavior as before. Because of this calls to dev_isalive in sysfs ops were removed. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/49A4D5D5.5090602@trash.net/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/m14oyhis31.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20090226084924.16cb3e08@nehalam/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210928125500.167943-1-atenart@kernel.org/T/ Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250204170314.146022-2-atenart@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.