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net: Write lock dev_base_lock without disabling bottom halves.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2016279

This patch is a backport of the following upstream commit: commit fd888e85fe6b661e78044dddfec0be5271afa626 Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior bigeasy@linutronix.de Date: Fri Nov 26 17:15:29 2021 +0100

net: Write lock dev_base_lock without disabling bottom halves.

The writer acquires dev_base_lock with disabled bottom halves.
The reader can acquire dev_base_lock without disabling bottom halves
because there is no writer in softirq context.

On PREEMPT_RT the softirqs are preemptible and local_bh_disable() acts
as a lock to ensure that resources, that are protected by disabling
bottom halves, remain protected.
This leads to a circular locking dependency if the lock acquired with
disabled bottom halves (as in write_lock_bh()) and somewhere else with
enabled bottom halves (as by read_lock() in netstat_show()) followed by
disabling bottom halves (cxgb_get_stats() -> t4_wr_mbox_meat_timeout()
-> spin_lock_bh()). This is the reverse locking order.

All read_lock() invocation are from sysfs callback which are not invoked
from softirq context. Therefore there is no need to disable bottom
halves while acquiring a write lock.

Acquire the write lock of dev_base_lock without disabling bottom halves.

Reported-by: Pei Zhang <pezhang@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Signed-off-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves lgoncalv@redhat.com

Edited by Luis Claudio R. Goncalves

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