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[3.13.y-ckt,49/56] bridge: disable softirqs around br_fdb_update to avoid lockup

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Kamal Mostafa July 8, 2015, 3:40 p.m. UTC 
3.13.11-ckt23 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

commit c4c832f89dc468cf11dc0dd17206bace44526651 upstream.

br_fdb_update() can be called in process context in the following way:
br_fdb_add() -> __br_fdb_add() -> br_fdb_update() (if NTF_USE flag is set)
so we need to disable softirqs because there are softirq users of the
hash_lock. One easy way to reproduce this is to modify the bridge utility
to set NTF_USE, enable stp and then set maxageing to a low value so
br_fdb_cleanup() is called frequently and then just add new entries in
a loop. This happens because br_fdb_cleanup() is called from timer/softirq
context. The spin locks in br_fdb_update were _bh before commit f8ae737deea1
("[BRIDGE]: forwarding remove unneeded preempt and bh diasables")
and at the time that commit was correct because br_fdb_update() couldn't be
called from process context, but that changed after commit:
292d1398983f ("bridge: add NTF_USE support")
Using local_bh_disable/enable around br_fdb_update() allows us to keep
using the spin_lock/unlock in br_fdb_update for the fast-path.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Fixes: 292d1398983f ("bridge: add NTF_USE support")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_fdb.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
index 33e8f23..62c444d 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
@@ -664,9 +664,11 @@  static int __br_fdb_add(struct ndmsg *ndm, struct net_bridge_port *p,
 	int err = 0;
 
 	if (ndm->ndm_flags & NTF_USE) {
+		local_bh_disable();
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		br_fdb_update(p->br, p, addr, vid);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
+		local_bh_enable();
 	} else {
 		spin_lock_bh(&p->br->hash_lock);
 		err = fdb_add_entry(p, addr, ndm->ndm_state,