Sequence counters write paths are critical sections that must never be
preempted, and blocking, even for CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, is not allowed.
Commit 5dbe7c178d ("net: fix kernel deadlock with interface rename and
netdev name retrieval.") handled a deadlock, observed with
CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n, where the devnet_rename seqcount read side was
infinitely spinning: it got scheduled after the seqcount write side
blocked inside its own critical section.
To fix that deadlock, among other issues, the commit added a
cond_resched() inside the read side section. While this will get the
non-preemptible kernel eventually unstuck, the seqcount reader is fully
exhausting its slice just spinning -- until TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set.
The fix is also still broken: if the seqcount reader belongs to a
real-time scheduling policy, it can spin forever and the kernel will
livelock.
Disabling preemption over the seqcount write side critical section will
not work: inside it are a number of GFP_KERNEL allocations and mutex
locking through the drivers/base/ :: device_rename() call chain.
>From all the above, replace the seqcount with a rwsem.
Fixes: 5dbe7c178d (net: fix kernel deadlock with interface rename and netdev name retrieval.)
Fixes: 30e6c9fa93 (net: devnet_rename_seq should be a seqcount)
Fixes: c91f6df2db (sockopt: Change getsockopt() of SO_BINDTODEVICE to return an interface name)
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> [ v1 missing up_read() on error exit ]
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> [ v1 missing up_read() on error exit ]
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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