This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
e1000e: add rtnl_lock() to e1000_reset_task
to the 5.10-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:
e1000e-add-rtnl_lock-to-e1000_reset_task.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit d0e80d96c259d927ca7c3e5ad522e7de0925510b
Author: Vitaly Lifshits <vitaly.lifshits@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Oct 21 14:59:37 2020 +0300
e1000e: add rtnl_lock() to e1000_reset_task
[ Upstream commit 21f857f0321d0d0ea9b1a758bd55dc63d1cb2437 ]
A possible race condition was found in e1000_reset_task,
after discovering a similar issue in igb driver via
commit 024a8168b749 ("igb: reinit_locked() should be called
with rtnl_lock").
Added rtnl_lock() and rtnl_unlock() to avoid this.
Fixes: bc7f75fa9788 ("[E1000E]: New pci-express e1000 driver (currently for ICH9 devices only)")
Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Lifshits <vitaly.lifshits@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Dvora Fuxbrumer <dvorax.fuxbrumer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
index e9b82c209c2d..a0948002ddf8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c
@@ -5974,15 +5974,19 @@ static void e1000_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
struct e1000_adapter *adapter;
adapter = container_of(work, struct e1000_adapter, reset_task);
+ rtnl_lock();
/* don't run the task if already down */
- if (test_bit(__E1000_DOWN, &adapter->state))
+ if (test_bit(__E1000_DOWN, &adapter->state)) {
+ rtnl_unlock();
return;
+ }
if (!(adapter->flags & FLAG_RESTART_NOW)) {
e1000e_dump(adapter);
e_err("Reset adapter unexpectedly\n");
}
e1000e_reinit_locked(adapter);
+ rtnl_unlock();
}
/**
