Re: [RFC PATCH] e1000e: Use rtnl_lock to prevent race conditions between net and pci/pm

From: Alexander Duyck
Date: Mon Oct 07 2019 - 13:02:23 EST


On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 8:51 AM David Z. Dai <zdai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

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> We have tested on one of the test box.
> With this patch, it doesn't crash kernel anymore, which is good!
>
> However we see this warning message from the log file for irq number 0:
> [10206.317270] Trying to free already-free IRQ 0
>
> With this stack:
> [10206.317344] NIP [c00000000018cbf8] __free_irq+0x308/0x370
> [10206.317346] LR [c00000000018cbf4] __free_irq+0x304/0x370
> [10206.317347] Call Trace:
> [10206.317348] [c00000008b92b970] [c00000000018cbf4] __free_irq
> +0x304/0x370 (unreliable)
> [10206.317351] [c00000008b92ba00] [c00000000018cd84] free_irq+0x84/0xf0
> [10206.317358] [c00000008b92ba30] [d000000007449e60] e1000_free_irq
> +0x98/0xc0 [e1000e]
> [10206.317365] [c00000008b92ba60] [d000000007458a70] e1000e_pm_freeze
> +0xb8/0x100 [e1000e]
> [10206.317372] [c00000008b92baa0] [d000000007458b6c]
> e1000_io_error_detected+0x34/0x70 [e1000e]
> [10206.317375] [c00000008b92bad0] [c000000000040358] eeh_report_failure
> +0xc8/0x190
> [10206.317377] [c00000008b92bb20] [c00000000003eb2c] eeh_pe_dev_traverse
> +0x9c/0x170
> [10206.317379] [c00000008b92bbb0] [c000000000040d84]
> eeh_handle_normal_event+0xe4/0x580
> [10206.317382] [c00000008b92bc60] [c000000000041330] eeh_handle_event
> +0x30/0x340
> [10206.317384] [c00000008b92bd10] [c000000000041780] eeh_event_handler
> +0x140/0x200
> [10206.317386] [c00000008b92bdc0] [c0000000001397c8] kthread+0x1a8/0x1b0
> [10206.317389] [c00000008b92be30] [c00000000000b560]
> ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x7c
>
> Thanks! - David

Hmm. I wonder if it is possibly calling the report
e1000_io_error_detected multiple times. If so then the secondary calls
to e1000_pm_freeze would cause issues.

I will add a check so that we only down the interface and free the
IRQs if the interface is in the present and running state.

I'll submit an update patch shortly.

Thanks.

- Alex