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Staging: batman-adv: Introduce if_list_lock to protect if_list
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The update critical sections of if_list must be protected by a locking
primitive other than RCU. The iterator must also be protected by the
chosen locking mechanism.

The rtnl_lock in hardif_remove_interfaces must also be moved outside the
iterator primitive to ensure that we don't deadlock the kernel due to
differently nested locks in hardif_remove_interfaces and hard_if_event.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Sven Eckelmann authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Sep 20, 2010
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17 changes: 15 additions & 2 deletions drivers/staging/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
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Expand Up @@ -33,6 +33,9 @@

#define MIN(x, y) ((x) < (y) ? (x) : (y))

/* protect update critical side of if_list - but not the content */
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(if_list_lock);

struct batman_if *get_batman_if_by_netdev(struct net_device *net_dev)
{
struct batman_if *batman_if;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -400,7 +403,11 @@ static struct batman_if *hardif_add_interface(struct net_device *net_dev)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&batman_if->list);

check_known_mac_addr(batman_if->net_dev->dev_addr);

spin_lock(&if_list_lock);
list_add_tail_rcu(&batman_if->list, &if_list);
spin_unlock(&if_list_lock);

return batman_if;

free_if:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -428,6 +435,8 @@ static void hardif_remove_interface(struct batman_if *batman_if)
return;

batman_if->if_status = IF_TO_BE_REMOVED;

/* caller must take if_list_lock */
list_del_rcu(&batman_if->list);
sysfs_del_hardif(&batman_if->hardif_obj);
dev_put(batman_if->net_dev);
Expand All @@ -438,11 +447,13 @@ void hardif_remove_interfaces(void)
{
struct batman_if *batman_if, *batman_if_tmp;

rtnl_lock();
spin_lock(&if_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry_safe(batman_if, batman_if_tmp, &if_list, list) {
rtnl_lock();
hardif_remove_interface(batman_if);
rtnl_unlock();
}
spin_unlock(&if_list_lock);
rtnl_unlock();
}

static int hard_if_event(struct notifier_block *this,
Expand All @@ -467,7 +478,9 @@ static int hard_if_event(struct notifier_block *this,
hardif_deactivate_interface(batman_if);
break;
case NETDEV_UNREGISTER:
spin_lock(&if_list_lock);
hardif_remove_interface(batman_if);
spin_unlock(&if_list_lock);
break;
case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
if (batman_if->soft_iface)
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