This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: sched: lock imbalance in hhf qdisc to the 3.14-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: net-sched-lock-imbalance-in-hhf-qdisc.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 May 28 21:03:54 PDT 2014 From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 09:23:06 -0700 Subject: net: sched: lock imbalance in hhf qdisc From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit f6a082fed1e6407c2f4437d0d963b1bcbe5f9f58 ] hhf_change() takes the sch_tree_lock and releases it but misses the error cases. Fix the missed case here. To reproduce try a command like this, # tc qdisc change dev p3p2 root hhf quantum 40960 non_hh_weight 300000 Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sched/sch_hhf.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/sched/sch_hhf.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_hhf.c @@ -553,11 +553,6 @@ static int hhf_change(struct Qdisc *sch, if (err < 0) return err; - sch_tree_lock(sch); - - if (tb[TCA_HHF_BACKLOG_LIMIT]) - sch->limit = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_HHF_BACKLOG_LIMIT]); - if (tb[TCA_HHF_QUANTUM]) new_quantum = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_HHF_QUANTUM]); @@ -567,6 +562,12 @@ static int hhf_change(struct Qdisc *sch, non_hh_quantum = (u64)new_quantum * new_hhf_non_hh_weight; if (non_hh_quantum > INT_MAX) return -EINVAL; + + sch_tree_lock(sch); + + if (tb[TCA_HHF_BACKLOG_LIMIT]) + sch->limit = nla_get_u32(tb[TCA_HHF_BACKLOG_LIMIT]); + q->quantum = new_quantum; q->hhf_non_hh_weight = new_hhf_non_hh_weight; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/net-sched-lock-imbalance-in-hhf-qdisc.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