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[net-2.6] net: restore the original spinlock to protect unicast list

Message ID 20090730110612.GD3686@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Jiri Pirko July 30, 2009, 11:06 a.m. UTC 
There is a path when an assetion in dev_unicast_sync() appears. 

igmp6_group_added -> dev_mc_add -> __dev_set_rx_mode ->
-> vlan_dev_set_rx_mode -> dev_unicast_sync

Therefore we cannot protect this list with rtnl. This patch restores the
original protecting this list with spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

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Comments

Meelis Roos July 30, 2009, 12:38 p.m. UTC | #1 
> There is a path when an assetion in dev_unicast_sync() appears. 
> 
> igmp6_group_added -> dev_mc_add -> __dev_set_rx_mode ->
> -> vlan_dev_set_rx_mode -> dev_unicast_sync
> 
> Therefore we cannot protect this list with rtnl. This patch restores the
> original protecting this list with spinlock.

Thank you, it works for me!

Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
David Miller Aug. 2, 2009, 7:29 p.m. UTC | #2 
From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:06:12 +0200

> There is a path when an assetion in dev_unicast_sync() appears. 
> 
> igmp6_group_added -> dev_mc_add -> __dev_set_rx_mode ->
> -> vlan_dev_set_rx_mode -> dev_unicast_sync
> 
> Therefore we cannot protect this list with rtnl. This patch restores the
> original protecting this list with spinlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 70c27e0..43e61ba 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3865,10 +3865,12 @@  int dev_unicast_delete(struct net_device *dev, void *addr)
 
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
+	netif_addr_lock_bh(dev);
 	err = __hw_addr_del(&dev->uc, addr, dev->addr_len,
 			    NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_UNICAST);
 	if (!err)
 		__dev_set_rx_mode(dev);
+	netif_addr_unlock_bh(dev);
 	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_unicast_delete);
@@ -3889,10 +3891,12 @@  int dev_unicast_add(struct net_device *dev, void *addr)
 
 	ASSERT_RTNL();
 
+	netif_addr_lock_bh(dev);
 	err = __hw_addr_add(&dev->uc, addr, dev->addr_len,
 			    NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_UNICAST);
 	if (!err)
 		__dev_set_rx_mode(dev);
+	netif_addr_unlock_bh(dev);
 	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_unicast_add);
@@ -3949,7 +3953,8 @@  void __dev_addr_unsync(struct dev_addr_list **to, int *to_count,
  *	@from: source device
  *
  *	Add newly added addresses to the destination device and release
- *	addresses that have no users left.
+ *	addresses that have no users left. The source device must be
+ *	locked by netif_tx_lock_bh.
  *
  *	This function is intended to be called from the dev->set_rx_mode
  *	function of layered software devices.
@@ -3958,14 +3963,14 @@  int dev_unicast_sync(struct net_device *to, struct net_device *from)
 {
 	int err = 0;
 
-	ASSERT_RTNL();
-
 	if (to->addr_len != from->addr_len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	netif_addr_lock_bh(to);
 	err = __hw_addr_sync(&to->uc, &from->uc, to->addr_len);
 	if (!err)
 		__dev_set_rx_mode(to);
+	netif_addr_unlock_bh(to);
 	return err;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_unicast_sync);
@@ -3981,28 +3986,30 @@  EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_unicast_sync);
  */
 void dev_unicast_unsync(struct net_device *to, struct net_device *from)
 {
-	ASSERT_RTNL();
-
 	if (to->addr_len != from->addr_len)
 		return;
 
+	netif_addr_lock_bh(from);
+	netif_addr_lock(to);
 	__hw_addr_unsync(&to->uc, &from->uc, to->addr_len);
 	__dev_set_rx_mode(to);
+	netif_addr_unlock(to);
+	netif_addr_unlock_bh(from);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_unicast_unsync);
 
 static void dev_unicast_flush(struct net_device *dev)
 {
-	/* rtnl_mutex must be held here */
-
+	netif_addr_lock_bh(dev);
 	__hw_addr_flush(&dev->uc);
+	netif_addr_unlock_bh(dev);
 }
 
 static void dev_unicast_init(struct net_device *dev)
 {
-	/* rtnl_mutex must be held here */
-
+	netif_addr_lock_bh(dev);
 	__hw_addr_init(&dev->uc);
+	netif_addr_unlock_bh(dev);
 }