netdev - Re: rhashtable: Fix walker list corruption

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Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:13:47 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	colin.king@...onical.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: rhashtable: Fix walker list corruption

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:45:54 +0800

> The commit ba7c95ea3870fe7b847466d39a049ab6f156aa2c ("rhashtable:
> Fix sleeping inside RCU critical section in walk_stop") introduced
> a new spinlock for the walker list.  However, it did not convert
> all existing users of the list over to the new spin lock.  Some
> continued to use the old mutext for this purpose.  This obviously
> led to corruption of the list.
> 
> The fix is to use the spin lock everywhere where we touch the list.
> 
> This also allows us to do rcu_rad_lock before we take the lock in
> rhashtable_walk_start.  With the old mutex this would've deadlocked
> but it's safe with the new spin lock.
> 
> Fixes: ba7c95ea3870 ("rhashtable: Fix sleeping inside RCU...")
> Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Herbert.
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