We encountered some crashes caused by the race between SMC-R
link access and link clear that triggered by abnormal link
group termination, such as port error.
Here is an example of this kind of crashes:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc]
RIP: 0010:smc_llc_flow_initiate+0x44/0x190 [smc]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __smc_buf_create+0x75a/0x950 [smc]
smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs+0x2a/0xbf [smc]
smc_listen_work+0xf72/0x1230 [smc]
? process_one_work+0x25c/0x600
process_one_work+0x25c/0x600
worker_thread+0x4f/0x3a0
? process_one_work+0x600/0x600
kthread+0x15d/0x1a0
? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
smc_listen_work() __smc_lgr_terminate()
---------------------------------------------------------------
| smc_lgr_free()
| |- smcr_link_clear()
| |- memset(lnk, 0)
smc_listen_rdma_reg() |
|- smcr_lgr_reg_rmbs() |
|- smc_llc_flow_initiate() |
|- access lnk->lgr (panic) |
These crashes are similarly caused by clearing SMC-R link
resources when some functions is still accessing to them.
This patch tries to fix the issue by introducing reference
count of SMC-R links and ensuring that the sensitive resources
of links won't be cleared until reference count reaches zero.
The operation to the SMC-R link reference count can be concluded
as follows:
object [hold or initialized as 1] [put]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
links smcr_link_init() smcr_link_clear()
connections smc_conn_create() smc_conn_free()
Through this way, the clear of SMC-R links is later than the
free of all the smc connections above it, thus avoiding the
unsafe reference to SMC-R links.
Signed-off-by: Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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