In case a user process using xenbus has open transactions and is killed e.g. via ctrl-C the following cleanup of the allocated resources might result in a deadlock due to trying to end a transaction in the xenbus worker thread:

[ 2551.474706] INFO: task xenbus:37 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 2551.492215] Tainted: P OE 5.0.0-29-generic #5 [ 2551.510263] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 2551.528585] xenbus D 0 37 2 0x80000080 [ 2551.528590] Call Trace: [ 2551.528603] __schedule+0x2c0/0x870 [ 2551.528606] ? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40 [ 2551.528632] schedule+0x2c/0x70 [ 2551.528637] xs_talkv+0x1ec/0x2b0 [ 2551.528642] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 [ 2551.528645] xs_single+0x53/0x80 [ 2551.528648] xenbus_transaction_end+0x3b/0x70 [ 2551.528651] xenbus_file_free+0x5a/0x160 [ 2551.528654] xenbus_dev_queue_reply+0xc4/0x220 [ 2551.528657] xenbus_thread+0x7de/0x880 [ 2551.528660] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 [ 2551.528665] kthread+0x121/0x140 [ 2551.528667] ? xb_read+0x1d0/0x1d0 [ 2551.528670] ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90 [ 2551.528673] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

Fix this by doing the cleanup via a workqueue instead.

Reported-by: James Dingwall james@dingwall.me.uk Fixes: fd8aa9095a95c ("xen: optimize xenbus driver for multiple concurrent xenstore accesses") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.11 Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross jgross@suse.com --- drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c index 08adc590f631..597af455a522 100644 --- a/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c +++ b/drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_dev_frontend.c @@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ #include <linux/string.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/miscdevice.h> +#include <linux/workqueue.h>

#include <xen/xenbus.h> #include <xen/xen.h> @@ -116,6 +117,8 @@ struct xenbus_file_priv { wait_queue_head_t read_waitq;

struct kref kref; + + struct work_struct wq; };

/* Read out any raw xenbus messages queued up. */ @@ -300,14 +303,14 @@ static void watch_fired(struct xenbus_watch *watch, mutex_unlock(&adap->dev_data->reply_mutex); }

-static void xenbus_file_free(struct kref *kref) +static void xenbus_worker(struct work_struct *wq) { struct xenbus_file_priv *u; struct xenbus_transaction_holder *trans, *tmp; struct watch_adapter *watch, *tmp_watch; struct read_buffer *rb, *tmp_rb;

- u = container_of(kref, struct xenbus_file_priv, kref); + u = container_of(wq, struct xenbus_file_priv, wq);

/* * No need for locking here because there are no other users, @@ -333,6 +336,18 @@ static void xenbus_file_free(struct kref *kref) kfree(u); }

+static void xenbus_file_free(struct kref *kref) +{ + struct xenbus_file_priv *u; + + /* + * We might be called in xenbus_thread(). + * Use workqueue to avoid deadlock. + */ + u = container_of(kref, struct xenbus_file_priv, kref); + schedule_work(&u->wq); +} + static struct xenbus_transaction_holder *xenbus_get_transaction( struct xenbus_file_priv *u, uint32_t tx_id) { @@ -650,6 +665,7 @@ static int xenbus_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) INIT_LIST_HEAD(&u->watches); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&u->read_buffers); init_waitqueue_head(&u->read_waitq); + INIT_WORK(&u->wq, xenbus_worker);

mutex_init(&u->reply_mutex); mutex_init(&u->msgbuffer_mutex);