linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tuntap: fix a possible race between queue selection and changing queues

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Date:	Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:33:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mst@...hat.com
Cc:	jasowang@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tuntap: fix a possible race between queue selection
 and changing queues

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:33:32 +0300

> On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 04:44:57PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
>> Complier may generate codes that re-read the tun->numqueues during
>> tun_select_queue(). This may be a race if vlan->numqueues were changed in the
>> same time and can lead unexpected result (e.g. very huge value).
>> 
>> We need prevent the compiler from generating such codes by adding an
>> ACCESS_ONCE() to make sure tun->numqueues were only read once.
>> 
>> Bug were introduced by commit c8d68e6be1c3b242f1c598595830890b65cea64a
>> (tuntap: multiqueue support).
>> 
>> Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
>> Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com>
> 
> This is a theoretical problem, right?
> So no need for stable.

Applied, thanks.
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