5.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com
[ Upstream commit 3e7917c0cdad835a5121520fc5686d954b7a61ab ]
linkwatch_event() grabs possibly very contended RTNL mutex.
system_wq is not suitable for such work.
Inspired by many noisy syzbot reports.
3 locks held by kworker/0:7/5266: #0: ffff888015480948 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3206 [inline] #0: ffff888015480948 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x90a/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3312 #1: ffffc90003f6fd00 ((linkwatch_work).work){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3207 [inline] , at: process_scheduled_works+0x945/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3312 #2: ffffffff8fa6f208 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: linkwatch_event+0xe/0x60 net/core/link_watch.c:276
Reported-by: syzbot syzkaller@googlegroups.com Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima kuniyu@amazon.com Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240805085821.1616528-1-edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/core/link_watch.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/link_watch.c b/net/core/link_watch.c index 35b0e39030daf..a70b2adc47a16 100644 --- a/net/core/link_watch.c +++ b/net/core/link_watch.c @@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ static void linkwatch_schedule_work(int urgent) * override the existing timer. */ if (test_bit(LW_URGENT, &linkwatch_flags)) - mod_delayed_work(system_wq, &linkwatch_work, 0); + mod_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &linkwatch_work, 0); else - schedule_delayed_work(&linkwatch_work, delay); + queue_delayed_work(system_unbound_wq, &linkwatch_work, delay); }