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igb: Fix a deadlock in igb_sriov_reinit

Message ID 1438572986-32708-1-git-send-email-baijiaju1990@163.com
State Awaiting Upstream, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Jia-Ju Bai Aug. 3, 2015, 3:36 a.m. UTC
When igb_init_interrupt_scheme in igb_sriov_reinit is failed, the lock 
acquired by rtnl_lock() is not released, which causes a deadlock.
This patch adds rtnl_unlock() in error handling to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

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Brown, Aaron F Aug. 11, 2015, 2:06 a.m. UTC | #1
> From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org]
> On Behalf Of Jia-Ju Bai
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 8:36 PM
> To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Brandeburg, Jesse
> Cc: intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; Jia-Ju Bai
> Subject: [PATCH] igb: Fix a deadlock in igb_sriov_reinit
> 
> When igb_init_interrupt_scheme in igb_sriov_reinit is failed, the lock
> acquired by rtnl_lock() is not released, which causes a deadlock.
> This patch adds rtnl_unlock() in error handling to fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990@163.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
index 2f70a9b..311d1ca 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c
@@ -7539,6 +7539,7 @@  static int igb_sriov_reinit(struct pci_dev *dev)
 
 	if (igb_init_interrupt_scheme(adapter, true)) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Unable to allocate memory for queues\n");
+		rtnl_unlock();
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}