From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>,
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] net: Fix devinet_sysctl_forward
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 19:59:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1k54kqtiu.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m13ab8s8cr.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Wed\, 13 May 2009 19\:53\:40 -0700")
sysctls are unregistered with the rntl_lock held making
it unsafe to unconditionally grab the the rtnl_lock. Instead
we need to call rtnl_trylock and restart the system call
if we can not grab it. Otherwise we could deadlock at unregistration
time.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
---
net/ipv4/devinet.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index 126bb91..3863c3a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -1347,7 +1347,8 @@ static int devinet_sysctl_forward(ctl_table *ctl, int write,
struct net *net = ctl->extra2;
if (valp != &IPV4_DEVCONF_DFLT(net, FORWARDING)) {
- rtnl_lock();
+ if (!rtnl_trylock())
+ return restart_syscall();
if (valp == &IPV4_DEVCONF_ALL(net, FORWARDING)) {
inet_forward_change(net);
} else if (*valp) {
--
1.6.0.6
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-14 2:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-14 2:53 [PATCH 0/7] IPv4/IPv6 unregistration deadlock fixes Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-14 2:55 ` [PATCH] syscall: Implement a convinience function restart_syscall Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-14 2:57 ` [PATCH 2/7] net-sysfs: Use rtnl_trylock in sysfs methods Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-14 2:58 ` [PATCH 3/7] net: FIX ipv6_forward sysctl restart Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-14 2:59 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-05-14 3:00 ` [PATCH 5/7] net: Fix bridgeing sysfs handling of rtnl_lock Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-14 3:01 ` [PATCH 6/7] net: Fix ipoib rtnl_lock sysfs deadlock Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-14 3:02 ` [PATCH 7/7] net: FIX bonding sysfs rtnl_lock deadlock Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-14 3:40 ` [PATCH 0/7] IPv4/IPv6 unregistration deadlock fixes David Miller
2009-05-14 6:44 ` [PATCH 1/7] syscall: Implement a convinience function restart_syscall Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-19 5:16 ` [PATCH 0/7] IPv4/IPv6 unregistration deadlock fixes David Miller
2009-05-19 8:07 ` Eric W. Biederman
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