In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ice: Fix race condition during interface enslave

Commit 5dbbbd01cbba83 (“ice: Avoid RTNL lock when re-creating
auxiliary device”) changes a process of re-creation of aux device
so ice_plug_aux_dev() is called from ice_service_task() context.
This unfortunately opens a race window that can result in dead-lock
when interface has left LAG and immediately enters LAG again.

Reproducer:

#!/bin/sh

ip link add lag0 type bond mode 1 miimon 100
ip link set lag0

for n in {1..10}; do
        echo Cycle: $n
        ip link set ens7f0 master lag0
        sleep 1
        ip link set ens7f0 nomaster
done

This results in:
[20976.208697] Workqueue: ice ice_service_task [ice]
[20976.213422] Call Trace:
[20976.215871] __schedule+0x2d1/0x830
[20976.219364] schedule+0x35/0xa0
[20976.222510] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10
[20976.227043] __mutex_lock.isra.7+0x310/0x420
[20976.235071] enum_all_gids_of_dev_cb+0x1c/0x100 [ib_core]
[20976.251215] ib_enum_roce_netdev+0xa4/0xe0 [ib_core]
[20976.256192] ib_cache_setup_one+0x33/0xa0 [ib_core]
[20976.261079] ib_register_device+0x40d/0x580 [ib_core]
[20976.266139] irdma_ib_register_device+0x129/0x250 [irdma]
[20976.281409] irdma_probe+0x2c1/0x360 [irdma]
[20976.285691] auxiliary_bus_probe+0x45/0x70
[20976.289790] really_probe+0x1f2/0x480
[20976.298509] driver_probe_device+0x49/0xc0
[20976.302609] bus_for_each_drv+0x79/0xc0
[20976.306448] __device_attach+0xdc/0x160
[20976.310286] bus_probe_device+0x9d/0xb0
[20976.314128] device_add+0x43c/0x890
[20976.321287] __auxiliary_device_add+0x43/0x60
[20976.325644] ice_plug_aux_dev+0xb2/0x100 [ice]
[20976.330109] ice_service_task+0xd0c/0xed0 [ice]
[20976.342591] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
[20976.350536] worker_thread+0x30/0x390
[20976.358128] kthread+0x10a/0x120
[20976.365547] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
…
[20976.438030] task:ip state:D stack: 0 pid:213658 ppid:213627 flags:0x00004084
[20976.446469] Call Trace:
[20976.448921] __schedule+0x2d1/0x830
[20976.452414] schedule+0x35/0xa0
[20976.455559] schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10
[20976.460090] __mutex_lock.isra.7+0x310/0x420
[20976.464364] device_del+0x36/0x3c0
[20976.467772] ice_unplug_aux_dev+0x1a/0x40 [ice]
[20976.472313] ice_lag_event_handler+0x2a2/0x520 [ice]
[20976.477288] notifier_call_chain+0x47/0x70
[20976.481386] __netdev_upper_dev_link+0x18b/0x280
[20976.489845] bond_enslave+0xe05/0x1790 [bonding]
[20976.494475] do_setlink+0x336/0xf50
[20976.502517] __rtnl_newlink+0x529/0x8b0
[20976.543441] rtnl_newlink+0x43/0x60
[20976.546934] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2b1/0x360
[20976.559238] netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120
[20976.563079] netlink_unicast+0x196/0x230
[20976.567005] netlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0
[20976.570930] sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50
[20976.574423] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1eb/0x250
[20976.586807] ___sys_sendmsg+0x7c/0xc0
[20976.606353] __sys_sendmsg+0x57/0xa0
[20976.609930] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0
[20976.613598] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca

1. Command ‘ip link … set nomaster’ causes that ice_plug_aux_dev()
   is called from ice_service_task() context, aux device is created
   and associated device->lock is taken.
   
2. Command ‘ip link … set master…’ calls ice’s notifier under
   RTNL lock and that notifier calls ice_unplug_aux_dev(). That
   function tries to take aux device->lock but this is already taken
   by ice_plug_aux_dev() in step 1
   
3. Later ice_plug_aux_dev() tries to take RTNL lock but this is already
   taken in step 2
   
4. Dead-lock
   

The patch fixes this issue by following changes:

• Bit ICE_FLAG_PLUG_AUX_DEV is kept to be set during ice_plug_aux_dev()
  call in ice_service_task()
  
• The bit is checked in ice_clear_rdma_cap() and only if it is not set
  then ice_unplug_aux_dev() is called. If it is set (in other words
  plugging of aux device was requested and ice_plug_aux_dev() is
  potentially running) then the function only clears the
  —-truncated—-