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 4.19-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-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8e3a3e737812f82f16e7bcc145837e655d318b31 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 7216825e049c..6bbe7afdf30c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c @@ -5922,15 +5922,19 @@ 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(); } /**