Re: [PATCH] xen: avoid deadlock in xenbus

[Boris Ostrovsky]

On 07/28/2017 10:53 AM, Juergen Gross wrote:
> When starting the xenwatch thread a theoretical deadlock situation is
> possible:
>
> xs_init() contains:
>
>     task = kthread_run(xenwatch_thread, NULL, "xenwatch");
>     if (IS_ERR(task))
>         return PTR_ERR(task);
>     xenwatch_pid = task->pid;
>
> And xenwatch_thread() does:
>
>     mutex_lock(&xenwatch_mutex);
>     ...
>     event->handle->callback();
>     ...
>     mutex_unlock(&xenwatch_mutex);
>
> The callback could call unregister_xenbus_watch() which does:
>
>     ...
>     if (current->pid != xenwatch_pid)
>         mutex_lock(&xenwatch_mutex);
>     ...
>
> In case a watch is firing before xenwatch_pid could be set and the
> callback of that watch unregisters a watch, then a self-deadlock would
> occur.
>
> Avoid this by setting xenwatch_pid in xenwatch_thread().
>
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

+stable?