On 06/02/17(Mon) 12:27, Martin Pieuchot wrote: > Paul and Antoine reported that, since the NET_LOCK() went in, doing a > channel scan with iwm(4) and iwn(4) freezes X. > > This is a deadlock due to the fact that wireless drivers sleep during > a long time holding the NET_LOCK() while the X server tries to > communicate with unix sockets, that still need the NET_LOCK(). > > The obvious solution to this problem is to not hold the NET_LOCK() for > unix socket related operations. We're working on that. > > However since hardware ioctl(2) can sleep there's no problem to release > the NET_LOCK() there. This is true for all ioctls that are not > modifying any stack state (address, multicast group, etc). Hence the > diff below that should fix the problem in a generic way.
tb@ found that another code path needs to be unlocked. Diff below does that. These ioctl(2)s are only messing at the driver level, so it is safe to drop the NET_LOCK() there as well. ok? Index: netinet/in.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/netinet/in.c,v retrieving revision 1.133 diff -u -p -r1.133 in.c --- netinet/in.c 20 Dec 2016 12:35:38 -0000 1.133 +++ netinet/in.c 6 Feb 2017 13:43:06 -0000 @@ -390,7 +390,11 @@ in_ioctl(u_long cmd, caddr_t data, struc default: if (ifp->if_ioctl == NULL) return (EOPNOTSUPP); - return ((*ifp->if_ioctl)(ifp, cmd, data)); + /* XXXSMP breaks atomicity */ + rw_exit_write(&netlock); + error = ((*ifp->if_ioctl)(ifp, cmd, data)); + rw_enter_write(&netlock); + return (error); } return (0); } Index: netinet6/in6.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/netinet6/in6.c,v retrieving revision 1.197 diff -u -p -r1.197 in6.c --- netinet6/in6.c 5 Feb 2017 16:04:14 -0000 1.197 +++ netinet6/in6.c 6 Feb 2017 13:43:06 -0000 @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ in6_ioctl(u_long cmd, caddr_t data, stru struct in6_ifaddr *ia6 = NULL; struct in6_aliasreq *ifra = (struct in6_aliasreq *)data; struct sockaddr_in6 *sa6; + int error; if (ifp == NULL) return (EOPNOTSUPP); @@ -469,9 +470,13 @@ in6_ioctl(u_long cmd, caddr_t data, stru break; default: - if (ifp == NULL || ifp->if_ioctl == 0) + if (ifp->if_ioctl == NULL) return (EOPNOTSUPP); - return ((*ifp->if_ioctl)(ifp, cmd, data)); + /* XXXSMP breaks atomicity */ + rw_exit_write(&netlock); + error = ((*ifp->if_ioctl)(ifp, cmd, data)); + rw_enter_write(&netlock); + return (error); } return (0); Index: dev/pci/if_iwm.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/if_iwm.c,v retrieving revision 1.162 diff -u -p -r1.162 if_iwm.c --- dev/pci/if_iwm.c 4 Feb 2017 19:20:59 -0000 1.162 +++ dev/pci/if_iwm.c 6 Feb 2017 14:52:24 -0000 @@ -6133,18 +6133,13 @@ iwm_ioctl(struct ifnet *ifp, u_long cmd, struct ifreq *ifr; int s, err = 0; - /* XXXSMP breaks atomicity */ - rw_exit_write(&netlock); - /* * Prevent processes from entering this function while another * process is tsleep'ing in it. */ err = rw_enter(&sc->ioctl_rwl, RW_WRITE | RW_INTR); - if (err) { - rw_enter_write(&netlock); + if (err) return err; - } s = splnet(); @@ -6190,7 +6185,6 @@ iwm_ioctl(struct ifnet *ifp, u_long cmd, splx(s); rw_exit(&sc->ioctl_rwl); - rw_enter_write(&netlock); return err; } Index: net/if.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/net/if.c,v retrieving revision 1.485 diff -u -p -r1.485 if.c --- net/if.c 1 Feb 2017 02:02:01 -0000 1.485 +++ net/if.c 6 Feb 2017 14:27:47 -0000 @@ -2029,7 +2029,10 @@ ifioctl(struct socket *so, u_long cmd, c case SIOCGIFPARENT: if (ifp->if_ioctl == 0) return (EOPNOTSUPP); + /* XXXSMP breaks atomicity */ + rw_exit_write(&netlock); error = (*ifp->if_ioctl)(ifp, cmd, data); + rw_enter_write(&netlock); break; case SIOCGIFDESCR: