This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
team: avoid race condition in scheduling delayed work
to the 3.16-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:
team-avoid-race-condition-in-scheduling-delayed-work.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.16 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 Sun Oct 12 20:11:55 CEST 2014
From: Joe Lawrence <Joe.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 09:58:34 -0400
Subject: team: avoid race condition in scheduling delayed work
From: Joe Lawrence <Joe.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 47549650abd13d873fd2e5fc218db19e21031074 ]
When team_notify_peers and team_mcast_rejoin are called, they both reset
their respective .count_pending atomic variable. Then when the actual
worker function is executed, the variable is atomically decremented.
This pattern introduces a potential race condition where the
.count_pending rolls over and the worker function keeps rescheduling
until .count_pending decrements to zero again:
THREAD 1 THREAD 2
======== ========
team_notify_peers(teamX)
atomic_set count_pending = 1
schedule_delayed_work
team_notify_peers(teamX)
atomic_set count_pending = 1
team_notify_peers_work
atomic_dec_and_test
count_pending = 0
(return)
schedule_delayed_work
team_notify_peers_work
atomic_dec_and_test
count_pending = -1
schedule_delayed_work
(repeat until count_pending = 0)
Instead of assigning a new value to .count_pending, use atomic_add to
tack-on the additional desired worker function invocations.
Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: fc423ff00df3a19554414ee ("team: add peer notification")
Fixes: 492b200efdd20b8fcfdac87 ("team: add support for sending multicast rejoins")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/team/team.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/team/team.c
+++ b/drivers/net/team/team.c
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ static void team_notify_peers(struct tea
{
if (!team->notify_peers.count || !netif_running(team->dev))
return;
- atomic_set(&team->notify_peers.count_pending, team->notify_peers.count);
+ atomic_add(team->notify_peers.count, &team->notify_peers.count_pending);
schedule_delayed_work(&team->notify_peers.dw, 0);
}
@@ -687,7 +687,7 @@ static void team_mcast_rejoin(struct tea
{
if (!team->mcast_rejoin.count || !netif_running(team->dev))
return;
- atomic_set(&team->mcast_rejoin.count_pending, team->mcast_rejoin.count);
+ atomic_add(team->mcast_rejoin.count, &team->mcast_rejoin.count_pending);
schedule_delayed_work(&team->mcast_rejoin.dw, 0);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Joe.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.16/team-avoid-race-condition-in-scheduling-delayed-work.patch
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