This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
devlink: Hold rtnl lock while reading netdev attributes
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
devlink-hold-rtnl-lock-while-reading-netdev-attributes.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Wed Dec 2 10:57:08 AM CET 2020
From: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 11:16:19 +0200
Subject: devlink: Hold rtnl lock while reading netdev attributes
From: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit b187c9b4178b87954dbc94e78a7094715794714f ]
A netdevice of a devlink port can be moved to different net namespace
than its parent devlink instance.
This scenario occurs when devlink reload is not used.
When netdevice is undergoing migration to net namespace, its ifindex
and name may change.
In such use case, devlink port query may read stale netdev attributes.
Fix it by reading them under rtnl lock.
Fixes: bfcd3a466172 ("Introduce devlink infrastructure")
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/devlink.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
--- a/net/core/devlink.c
+++ b/net/core/devlink.c
@@ -562,6 +562,8 @@ static int devlink_nl_port_fill(struct s
if (nla_put_u32(msg, DEVLINK_ATTR_PORT_INDEX, devlink_port->index))
goto nla_put_failure;
+ /* Hold rtnl lock while accessing port's netdev attributes. */
+ rtnl_lock();
spin_lock_bh(&devlink_port->type_lock);
if (nla_put_u16(msg, DEVLINK_ATTR_PORT_TYPE, devlink_port->type))
goto nla_put_failure_type_locked;
@@ -588,6 +590,7 @@ static int devlink_nl_port_fill(struct s
goto nla_put_failure_type_locked;
}
spin_unlock_bh(&devlink_port->type_lock);
+ rtnl_unlock();
if (devlink_nl_port_attrs_put(msg, devlink_port))
goto nla_put_failure;
@@ -596,6 +599,7 @@ static int devlink_nl_port_fill(struct s
nla_put_failure_type_locked:
spin_unlock_bh(&devlink_port->type_lock);
+ rtnl_unlock();
nla_put_failure:
genlmsg_cancel(msg, hdr);
return -EMSGSIZE;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from parav@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-5.4/devlink-hold-rtnl-lock-while-reading-netdev-attributes.patch
