4.2.8-ckt6 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> commit 8bf862739a7786ae72409220914df960a0aa80d8 upstream. Beniamino reported that he was getting an RTM_NEWLINK message for a given interface, after the RTM_DELLINK for it. It turns out that the message is a wireless extensions message, which was sent because the interface had been connected and disconnection while it was deleted caused a wext message. For its netlink messages, wext uses RTM_NEWLINK, but the message is without all the regular rtnetlink attributes, so "ip monitor link" prints just rudimentary information: 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Deleted 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default link/ether 02:00:00:00:01:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 5: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> link/ether (from my hwsim reproduction) This can cause userspace to get confused since it doesn't expect an RTM_NEWLINK message after RTM_DELLINK. The reason for this is that wext schedules a worker to send out the messages, and the scheduling delay can cause the messages to get out to userspace in different order. To fix this, have wext register a netdevice notifier and flush out any pending messages when netdevice state changes. This fixes any ordering whenever the original message wasn't sent by a notifier itself. Reported-by: Beniamino Galvani <bgalvani@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/wext-core.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/wireless/wext-core.c b/net/wireless/wext-core.c index c8717c1..87dd619 100644 --- a/net/wireless/wext-core.c +++ b/net/wireless/wext-core.c @@ -342,6 +342,39 @@ static const int compat_event_type_size[] = { /* IW event code */ +static void wireless_nlevent_flush(void) +{ + struct sk_buff *skb; + struct net *net; + + ASSERT_RTNL(); + + for_each_net(net) { + while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&net->wext_nlevents))) + rtnl_notify(skb, net, 0, RTNLGRP_LINK, NULL, + GFP_KERNEL); + } +} + +static int wext_netdev_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, + unsigned long state, void *ptr) +{ + /* + * When a netdev changes state in any way, flush all pending messages + * to avoid them going out in a strange order, e.g. RTM_NEWLINK after + * RTM_DELLINK, or with IFF_UP after without IFF_UP during dev_close() + * or similar - all of which could otherwise happen due to delays from + * schedule_work(). + */ + wireless_nlevent_flush(); + + return NOTIFY_OK; +} + +static struct notifier_block wext_netdev_notifier = { + .notifier_call = wext_netdev_notifier_call, +}; + static int __net_init wext_pernet_init(struct net *net) { skb_queue_head_init(&net->wext_nlevents); @@ -360,7 +393,12 @@ static struct pernet_operations wext_pernet_ops = { static int __init wireless_nlevent_init(void) { - return register_pernet_subsys(&wext_pernet_ops); + int err = register_pernet_subsys(&wext_pernet_ops); + + if (err) + return err; + + return register_netdevice_notifier(&wext_netdev_notifier); } subsys_initcall(wireless_nlevent_init); @@ -368,17 +406,8 @@ subsys_initcall(wireless_nlevent_init); /* Process events generated by the wireless layer or the driver. */ static void wireless_nlevent_process(struct work_struct *work) { - struct sk_buff *skb; - struct net *net; - rtnl_lock(); - - for_each_net(net) { - while ((skb = skb_dequeue(&net->wext_nlevents))) - rtnl_notify(skb, net, 0, RTNLGRP_LINK, NULL, - GFP_KERNEL); - } - + wireless_nlevent_flush(); rtnl_unlock(); } -- 2.7.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html