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[v2,1/4] bonding: fix set mode race conditions

Message ID 1368875911-4952-2-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Nikolay Aleksandrov May 18, 2013, 11:18 a.m. UTC 
Changing the mode without any locking can result in multiple races (e.g.
upping a bond, enslaving/releasing). Depending on which race is hit the
impact can vary from incosistent bond state to kernel crash.
Use RTNL to synchronize the mode setting with the dangerous races.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index ea7a388..77ea237 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -316,6 +316,9 @@  static ssize_t bonding_store_mode(struct device *d,
 	int new_value, ret = count;
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
+	if (!rtnl_trylock())
+		return restart_syscall();
+
 	if (bond->dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
 		pr_err("unable to update mode of %s because interface is up.\n",
 		       bond->dev->name);
@@ -352,6 +355,7 @@  static ssize_t bonding_store_mode(struct device *d,
 		bond->dev->name, bond_mode_tbl[new_value].modename,
 		new_value);
 out:
+	rtnl_unlock();
 	return ret;
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR(mode, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,