netdev - [PATCH 7/7] net: FIX bonding sysfs rtnl

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 20:02:50 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: [PATCH 7/7] net: FIX bonding sysfs rtnl_lock deadlock


Sysfs files for a network device can not unconditionally take the
rtnl_lock as the bonding sysfs files do.  If someone accesses those
sysfs files while the network device is being unregistered with the
rtnl_lock held we will deadlock.

So use trylock and restart_syscall to avoid this problem.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
---
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c |    9 ++++++---
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index d287315..3a1b7b0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -251,7 +251,8 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_slaves(struct device *d,
 
 	/* Note:  We can't hold bond->lock here, as bond_create grabs it. */
 
-	rtnl_lock();
+	if (!rtnl_trylock())
+		return restart_syscall();
 	down_write(&(bonding_rwsem));
 
 	sscanf(buffer, "%16s", command); /* IFNAMSIZ*/
@@ -1171,7 +1172,8 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_primary(struct device *d,
 	struct slave *slave;
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	rtnl_lock();
+	if (!rtnl_trylock())
+		return restart_syscall();
 	read_lock(&bond->lock);
 	write_lock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
@@ -1288,7 +1290,8 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_active_slave(struct device *d,
         struct slave *new_active = NULL;
 	struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
-	rtnl_lock();
+	if (!rtnl_trylock())
+		return restart_syscall();
 	read_lock(&bond->lock);
 	write_lock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
-- 
1.6.0.6

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