This bug happens if the VMM sends a VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE request while the virtio-net driver is still probing with rtnl_lock() hold, this will cause a recursive mutex in netdev_notify_peers(). Fix it by skip acking the annouce in virtnet_config_changed_work() when probing. The annouce will still get done when ndo_open() enables the virtio_config_driver_enable(). We've observed a softlockup with Ubuntu 24.04, and can be reproduced with QEMU sending the announce_self rapidly while booting. [ 494.167473] INFO: task swapper/0:1 blocked for more than 368 seconds. [ 494.167667] Not tainted 6.8.0-57-generic #59-Ubuntu [ 494.167810] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 494.168015] task:swapper/0 state:D stack:0 pid:1 tgid:1 ppid:0 flags:0x00004000 [ 494.168260] Call Trace: [ 494.168329] [ 494.168389] __schedule+0x27c/0x6b0 [ 494.168495] schedule+0x33/0x110 [ 494.168585] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30 [ 494.168709] __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x42f/0x740 [ 494.168835] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x20 [ 494.168949] mutex_lock+0x3c/0x50 [ 494.169039] rtnl_lock+0x15/0x20 [ 494.169128] netdev_notify_peers+0x12/0x30 [ 494.169240] virtnet_config_changed_work+0x152/0x1a0 [ 494.169377] virtnet_probe+0xa48/0xe00 [ 494.169484] ? vp_get+0x4d/0x100 [ 494.169574] virtio_dev_probe+0x1e9/0x310 [ 494.169682] really_probe+0x1c7/0x410 [ 494.169783] __driver_probe_device+0x8c/0x180 [ 494.169901] driver_probe_device+0x24/0xd0 [ 494.170011] __driver_attach+0x10b/0x210 [ 494.170117] ? __pfx___driver_attach+0x10/0x10 [ 494.170237] bus_for_each_dev+0x8d/0xf0 [ 494.170341] driver_attach+0x1e/0x30 [ 494.170440] bus_add_driver+0x14e/0x290 [ 494.170548] driver_register+0x5e/0x130 [ 494.170651] ? __pfx_virtio_net_driver_init+0x10/0x10 [ 494.170788] register_virtio_driver+0x20/0x40 [ 494.170905] virtio_net_driver_init+0x97/0xb0 [ 494.171022] do_one_initcall+0x5e/0x340 [ 494.171128] do_initcalls+0x107/0x230 [ 494.171228] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10 [ 494.171340] kernel_init_freeable+0x134/0x210 [ 494.171462] kernel_init+0x1b/0x200 [ 494.171560] ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70 [ 494.171659] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10 [ 494.171769] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 [ 494.171875] Fixes: df28de7b0050 ("virtio-net: synchronize operstate with admin state on up/down") Signed-off-by: Zigit Zo --- drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index e53ba600605a..0290d289ebee 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -6211,7 +6211,8 @@ static const struct net_device_ops virtnet_netdev = { .ndo_tx_timeout = virtnet_tx_timeout, }; -static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work) +static void __virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work, + bool check_announce) { struct virtnet_info *vi = container_of(work, struct virtnet_info, config_work); @@ -6221,7 +6222,7 @@ static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work) struct virtio_net_config, status, &v) < 0) return; - if (v & VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE) { + if (check_announce && (v & VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE)) { netdev_notify_peers(vi->dev); virtnet_ack_link_announce(vi); } @@ -6244,6 +6245,11 @@ static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work) } } +static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work) +{ + __virtnet_config_changed_work(work, true); +} + static void virtnet_config_changed(struct virtio_device *vdev) { struct virtnet_info *vi = vdev->priv; @@ -7030,7 +7036,10 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) otherwise get link status from config. */ netif_carrier_off(dev); if (virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS)) { - virtnet_config_changed_work(&vi->config_work); + /* The check_annouce work will get scheduled when ndo_open() + * doing the virtio_config_driver_enable(). + */ + __virtnet_config_changed_work(&vi->config_work, false); } else { vi->status = VIRTIO_NET_S_LINK_UP; virtnet_update_settings(vi); base-commit: 2def09ead4ad5907988b655d1e1454003aaf8297 -- 2.49.0