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neighbour: Fixed race condition at tbl->nht
authorMichel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:04:13 +0000 (11:04 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:57:45 +0000 (08:57 -0700)
commit035e3f6e8d1353abcbefd5b87710f8ae8bf1b4f6
tree45b2a99e67d7baf401e400a3aaad96cd225c120c
parent7affb2673c36d8fb93ac39e889b674c95eb3c8f8
neighbour: Fixed race condition at tbl->nht

[ Upstream commit 84338a6c9dbb6ff3de4749864020f8f25d86fc81 ]

When the fixed race condition happens:

1. While function neigh_periodic_work scans the neighbor hash table
pointed by field tbl->nht, it unlocks and locks tbl->lock between
buckets in order to call cond_resched.

2. Assume that function neigh_periodic_work calls cond_resched, that is,
the lock tbl->lock is available, and function neigh_hash_grow runs.

3. Once function neigh_hash_grow finishes, and RCU calls
neigh_hash_free_rcu, the original struct neigh_hash_table that function
neigh_periodic_work was using doesn't exist anymore.

4. Once back at neigh_periodic_work, whenever the old struct
neigh_hash_table is accessed, things can go badly.

Signed-off-by: Michel Machado <michel@digirati.com.br>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/core/neighbour.c