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From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
To: kimbrownkd <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>,
	Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>,
	Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
	KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add mutex lock to channel show functions
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 18:24:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <PU1P153MB0169227534F832C2DAEC02B4BF920@PU1P153MB0169.APCP153.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190131174707.GA2055@ubu-Virtual-Machine>

> From: Kimberly Brown <kimbrownkd@gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 9:47 AM
> ...
> 2) Prevent a deadlock that can occur between the proposed mutex_lock()
> call in the vmbus_chan_attr_show() function and the sysfs/kernfs functions.
Hi Kim,
Can you please share more details about the deadlock? 
It's unclear to me how the deadlock happens.

> I've identified two possible solutions to the deadlock:
> 
> 1) Add a new mutex to the vmbus_channel struct which protects changes to
> "channel->state". Use this new mutex in vmbus_chan_attr_show() instead of
> "vmbus_connection.channel_mutex".
> 
> 2) Use "vmbus_connection.channel_mutex" in vmbus_chan_attr_show() as
> originally proposed, and acquire it with mutex_trylock(). If the mutex
> cannot be acquired, return -EINVAL.
It looks more like a workaround. IMO we should try to find a real fix. :-)
 
> I'm leaning towards (2), using mutex_trylock().
> "vmbus_connection.channel_mutex"
> appears to be used only when a channel is being opened or closed, so
> vmbus_chan_attr_show() should be able to acquire the mutex when the
> channel is in use.
> 
> If anyone has suggestions, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks,
> Kim

Thanks,
-- Dexuan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-01 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-22  2:07 [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add mutex lock to channel show functions Kimberly Brown
2019-01-22  3:46 ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-22  6:42   ` Kimberly Brown
2019-01-22 18:40     ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-28 19:58       ` Kimberly Brown
2019-01-29 19:20         ` Dexuan Cui
2019-01-31 15:19           ` Sasha Levin
2019-01-31 16:45             ` Michael Kelley
2019-01-31 17:47               ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-01 14:13                 ` Sasha Levin
2019-02-01 18:24                 ` Dexuan Cui [this message]
2019-02-02 20:07                   ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-15  1:54                     ` Sasha Levin
2019-02-15  2:27                       ` Kimberly Brown
2019-02-22  3:46 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix a race condition vulnerability in "_show" functions Kimberly Brown
2019-02-22  3:47   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Refactor chan->state if statement Kimberly Brown
2019-02-24 16:54     ` Michael Kelley
2019-02-22  3:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add a channel ring buffer mutex lock Kimberly Brown
2019-02-24 16:53     ` Michael Kelley
2019-02-26  6:24       ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:04   ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a race condition in "_show" functions Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:05     ` [PATCH v3 1/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Refactor chan->state if statement Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 20:05     ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Set ring_info field to 0 and remove memset Kimberly Brown
2019-03-29 16:01       ` Michael Kelley
2019-03-14 20:05     ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix race condition with new ring_buffer_info mutex Kimberly Brown
2019-03-14 22:45       ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-17  1:49         ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-20 20:06           ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-21  3:47             ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-21 16:04               ` Michael Kelley
2019-03-28  4:30                 ` Kimberly Brown
2019-03-28 18:42                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-03-29 16:04       ` Michael Kelley
2019-04-10 22:59     ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a race condition in "_show" functions Sasha Levin

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