Standard kernel mutexes cannot be used in any way from interrupt or softirq
context, so the user_mutex which manages access to a call cannot be a mutex
since on a new call the mutex must start off locked and be unlocked within
the softirq handler to prevent userspace interfering with a call we're
setting up.
Commit a0855d24fc ("locking/mutex: Complain
upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts") causes big warnings to be splashed
in dmesg for each a new call that comes in from the server. Whilst it
*seems* like it should be okay, since the accept path uses trylock, there
are issues with PI boosting and marking the wrong task as the owner.
Fix this by not taking the mutex in the softirq path at all. It's not
obvious that there should be any need for it as the state is set before the
first notification is generated for the new call.
There's also no particular reason why the link-assessing ping should be
triggered inside the mutex. It's not actually transmitted there anyway,
but rather it has to be deferred to a workqueue.
Further, I don't think that there's any particular reason that the socket
notification needs to be done from within rx->incoming_lock, so the amount
of time that lock is held can be shortened too and the ping prepared before
the new call notification is sent.
Fixes: 540b1c48c3 ("rxrpc: Fix deadlock between call creation and sendmsg/recvmsg")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
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