netconsole: clean up deactivated targets dropped before the cleanup worker

drop_netconsole_target() downgrades a STATE_DEACTIVATED target to
STATE_DISABLED and then only calls netpoll_cleanup() when the target is
STATE_ENABLED. A target becomes STATE_DEACTIVATED when its underlying
interface is unregistered: netconsole_netdev_event() moves it to
target_cleanup_list, and netconsole_process_cleanups_core() is expected
to run do_netpoll_cleanup() on it.

Now that drop_netconsole_target() takes target_cleanup_list_lock around
the unlink, a configfs removal racing with NETDEV_UNREGISTER can pull the
target off target_cleanup_list before the cleanup worker processes it.
The notifier drops the lock before calling
netconsole_process_cleanups_core(), so the worker then iterates a list
that no longer contains the target and never runs do_netpoll_cleanup() on
it. Because drop_netconsole_target() has already rewritten the state to
STATE_DISABLED, its own STATE_ENABLED check is false and netpoll_cleanup()
is skipped too. The net_device reference taken by netpoll_setup() is then
leaked and unregister_netdevice() hangs forever in netdev_wait_allrefs().

Capture whether the target still owns a netpoll before the state is
downgraded and clean it up for both STATE_ENABLED and STATE_DEACTIVATED
targets. netpoll_cleanup() is idempotent -- it skips when np->dev is
already NULL -- so it is safe even when the cleanup worker won the race
and already tore the netpoll down.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260604-netcons_fix_before_move-v3-4-ab055b3a6aa5@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index d8be2fef3826..80c5393ffa1c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -1449,11 +1449,21 @@ static void drop_netconsole_target(struct config_group *group,
 {
 	struct netconsole_target *nt = to_target(item);
 	unsigned long flags;
+	bool needs_cleanup;
 
 	dynamic_netconsole_mutex_lock();
 
 	mutex_lock(&target_cleanup_list_lock);
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags);
+	/* A STATE_DEACTIVATED target may have been moved to
+	 * target_cleanup_list by netconsole_netdev_event() but not yet
+	 * processed by netconsole_process_cleanups_core(). Unlinking it below
+	 * hides it from the cleanup worker, so this path has to clean it up
+	 * itself. Record that the target still owns a netpoll before the
+	 * state is downgraded.
+	 */
+	needs_cleanup = nt->state == STATE_ENABLED ||
+			nt->state == STATE_DEACTIVATED;
 	/* Disable deactivated target to prevent races between resume attempt
 	 * and target removal.
 	 */
@@ -1475,8 +1485,10 @@ static void drop_netconsole_target(struct config_group *group,
 	/*
 	 * The target may have never been enabled, or was manually disabled
 	 * before being removed so netpoll may have already been cleaned up.
+	 * netpoll_cleanup() is idempotent (it skips when np->dev is NULL), so
+	 * it is safe even if the cleanup worker already tore the netpoll down.
 	 */
-	if (nt->state == STATE_ENABLED)
+	if (needs_cleanup)
 		netpoll_cleanup(&nt->np);
 
 	config_item_put(&nt->group.cg_item);