[PATCH] eal/linux: prevent deadlocks on rte init and cleanup

Jonathan Erb jonathan.erb at threatblockr.com
Tue Jul 18 03:00:46 CEST 2023


Resolves a deadlock that can occur when multiple secondary
processes are starting and stopping. A deadlock can occur because
eal_memalloc_init() is taking a second unnecessary read lock.
If another DPDK process that is terminating enters rte_eal_memory_detach()
and acquires a write lock wait state before the starting process can
acquire it's second read lock then no process will be able to proceed.

Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Erb <jonathan.erb at threatblockr.com>
---
 .mailmap                     | 2 +-
 lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 6eccf0c555..a64bfcf1d2 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ John OLoughlin <john.oloughlin at intel.com>
 John Ousterhout <ouster at cs.stanford.edu>
 John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
 Jonas Pfefferle <jpf at zurich.ibm.com> <pepperjo at japf.ch>
-Jonathan Erb <jonathan.erb at banduracyber.com>
+Jonathan Erb <jonathan.erb at threatblockr.com>
 Jon DeVree <nuxi at vault24.org>
 Jon Loeliger <jdl at netgate.com>
 Joongi Kim <joongi at an.kaist.ac.kr>
diff --git a/lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c b/lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c
index f8b1588cae..a34f1cf2f9 100644
--- a/lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c
+++ b/lib/eal/linux/eal_memalloc.c
@@ -1740,7 +1740,7 @@ eal_memalloc_init(void)
 		eal_get_internal_configuration();
 
 	if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_SECONDARY)
-		if (rte_memseg_list_walk(secondary_msl_create_walk, NULL) < 0)
+		if (rte_memseg_list_walk_thread_unsafe(secondary_msl_create_walk, NULL) < 0)
 			return -1;
 	if (rte_eal_process_type() == RTE_PROC_PRIMARY &&
 			internal_conf->in_memory) {
@@ -1778,7 +1778,7 @@ eal_memalloc_init(void)
 	}
 
 	/* initialize all of the fd lists */
-	if (rte_memseg_list_walk(fd_list_create_walk, NULL))
+	if (rte_memseg_list_walk_thread_unsafe(fd_list_create_walk, NULL))
 		return -1;
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
2.34.1



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