From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rpeterso@redhat.com
Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, psutter@redhat.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: Fix tipc_sk_reinit handling of -EAGAIN
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 14:02:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170824.140258.238955887232472310.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25145358.1155254.1503499382947.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>
From: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:43:02 -0400 (EDT)
> In 9dbbfb0ab6680c6a85609041011484e6658e7d3c function tipc_sk_reinit
> had additional logic added to loop in the event that function
> rhashtable_walk_next() returned -EAGAIN. No worries.
>
> However, if rhashtable_walk_start returns -EAGAIN, it does "continue",
> and therefore skips the call to rhashtable_walk_stop(). That has
> the effect of calling rcu_read_lock() without its paired call to
> rcu_read_unlock(). Since rcu_read_lock() may be nested, the problem
> may not be apparent for a while, especially since resize events may
> be rare. But the comments to rhashtable_walk_start() state:
>
> * ...Note that we take the RCU lock in all
> * cases including when we return an error. So you must always call
> * rhashtable_walk_stop to clean up.
>
> This patch replaces the continue with a goto and label to ensure a
> matching call to rhashtable_walk_stop().
>
> Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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2017-08-23 14:43 ` [PATCH] tipc: Fix tipc_sk_reinit handling of -EAGAIN Bob Peterson
2017-08-24 13:10 ` Herbert Xu
2017-08-24 21:02 ` David Miller [this message]
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