From: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 14:48:14 +0800
> Now sctp holds read_lock when foreach sctp_ep_hashtable without disabling > BH. If CPU schedules to another thread A at this moment, the thread A may > be trying to hold the write_lock with disabling BH. > > As BH is disabled and CPU cannot schedule back to the thread holding the > read_lock, while the thread A keeps waiting for the read_lock. A dead > lock would be triggered by this. > > This patch is to fix this dead lock by calling read_lock_bh instead to > disable BH when holding the read_lock in sctp_for_each_endpoint. > > Fixes: 626d16f50f39 ("sctp: export some apis or variables for sctp_diag and > reuse some for proc") > Reported-by: Xiumei Mu <x...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.