This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled inet: fix possible seqlock deadlocks to the 3.10-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: inet-fix-possible-seqlock-deadlocks.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From c19eb885a2c3d9c85a821725dab48b70de88e046 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 09:51:22 -0800 Subject: inet: fix possible seqlock deadlocks From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f1d8cba61c3c4b1eb88e507249c4cb8d635d9a76 ] In commit c9e9042994d3 ("ipv4: fix possible seqlock deadlock") I left another places where IP_INC_STATS_BH() were improperly used. udp_sendmsg(), ping_v4_sendmsg() and tcp_v4_connect() are called from process context, not from softirq context. This was detected by lockdep seqlock support. Reported-by: jongman heo <jongman.heo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 584bdf8cbdf6 ("[IPV4]: Fix "ipOutNoRoutes" counter error for TCP and UDP") Fixes: c319b4d76b9e ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/ping.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c | 2 +- net/ipv4/udp.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/ping.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ static int ping_sendmsg(struct kiocb *io err = PTR_ERR(rt); rt = NULL; if (err == -ENETUNREACH) - IP_INC_STATS_BH(net, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); + IP_INC_STATS(net, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); goto out; } --- a/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ int tcp_v4_connect(struct sock *sk, stru if (IS_ERR(rt)) { err = PTR_ERR(rt); if (err == -ENETUNREACH) - IP_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); + IP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); return err; } --- a/net/ipv4/udp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c @@ -971,7 +971,7 @@ int udp_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, stru err = PTR_ERR(rt); rt = NULL; if (err == -ENETUNREACH) - IP_INC_STATS_BH(net, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); + IP_INC_STATS(net, IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES); goto out; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/net-8139cp-fix-a-bug_on-triggered-by-wrong-bytes_compl.patch queue-3.10/net-tcp-fix-panic-in-tcp_fastopen_cache_set.patch queue-3.10/tcp-tsq-restore-minimal-amount-of-queueing.patch queue-3.10/ipv6-fix-possible-seqlock-deadlock-in-ip6_finish_output2.patch queue-3.10/tcp-don-t-update-snd_nxt-when-a-socket-is-switched-from-repair-mode.patch queue-3.10/inet-fix-possible-seqlock-deadlocks.patch queue-3.10/net-clamp-msg_namelen-instead-of-returning-an-error.patch queue-3.10/af_packet-block-bh-in-prb_shutdown_retire_blk_timer.patch queue-3.10/ipv4-fix-possible-seqlock-deadlock.patch queue-3.10/tcp-gso-fix-truesize-tracking.patch -- 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