-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jay Vosburgh [ Upstream commit 815bcc2719c12b6f5b511706e2d19728e07f0b02 ] Fix locking issue in alb MAC address management; removed incorrect locking and replaced with correct locking. This bug was introduced in commit 059fe7a578fba5bbb0fdc0365bfcf6218fa25eb0 ("bonding: Convert locks to _bh, rework alb locking for new locking") Bug reported by Paul Smith , who also tested the fix. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c @@ -1716,9 +1716,6 @@ int bond_alb_set_mac_address(struct net_ } } - write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock); - read_unlock(&bond->lock); - if (swap_slave) { alb_swap_mac_addr(bond, swap_slave, bond->curr_active_slave); alb_fasten_mac_swap(bond, swap_slave, bond->curr_active_slave); @@ -1726,16 +1723,15 @@ int bond_alb_set_mac_address(struct net_ alb_set_slave_mac_addr(bond->curr_active_slave, bond_dev->dev_addr, bond->alb_info.rlb_enabled); + read_lock(&bond->lock); alb_send_learning_packets(bond->curr_active_slave, bond_dev->dev_addr); if (bond->alb_info.rlb_enabled) { /* inform clients mac address has changed */ rlb_req_update_slave_clients(bond, bond->curr_active_slave); } + read_unlock(&bond->lock); } - read_lock(&bond->lock); - write_lock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock); - return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/