linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 088/102] bridge: use _bh spinlock variant for br_fdb

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Date:	Tue,  7 Jul 2015 11:23:18 -0700
From:	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Wilson Kok <wkok@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 088/102] bridge: use _bh spinlock variant for br_fdb_update to avoid lockup

3.19.8-ckt3 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Wilson Kok <wkok@...ulusnetworks.com>

commit 1d7c49037b12016e7056b9f2c990380e2187e766 upstream.

br_fdb_update() can be called in process context in the following way:
br_fdb_add() -> __br_fdb_add() -> br_fdb_update() (if NTF_USE flag is set)
so we need to use spin_lock_bh because there are softirq users of the
hash_lock. One easy way to reproduce this is to modify the bridge utility
to set NTF_USE, enable stp and then set maxageing to a low value so
br_fdb_cleanup() is called frequently and then just add new entries in
a loop. This happens because br_fdb_cleanup() is called from timer/softirq
context. These locks were _bh before commit f8ae737deea1
("[BRIDGE]: forwarding remove unneeded preempt and bh diasables")
and at the time that commit was correct because br_fdb_update() couldn't be
called from process context, but that changed after commit:
292d1398983f ("bridge: add NTF_USE support")

Signed-off-by: Wilson Kok <wkok@...ulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Fixes: 292d1398983f ("bridge: add NTF_USE support")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
---
 net/bridge/br_fdb.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
index 79f59c5..ed1e0fa 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_fdb.c
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@ void br_fdb_update(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_bridge_port *source,
 				fdb_notify(br, fdb, RTM_NEWNEIGH);
 		}
 	} else {
-		spin_lock(&br->hash_lock);
+		spin_lock_bh(&br->hash_lock);
 		if (likely(!fdb_find(head, addr, vid))) {
 			fdb = fdb_create(head, source, addr, vid);
 			if (fdb) {
@@ -581,7 +581,7 @@ void br_fdb_update(struct net_bridge *br, struct net_bridge_port *source,
 		/* else  we lose race and someone else inserts
 		 * it first, don't bother updating
 		 */
-		spin_unlock(&br->hash_lock);
+		spin_unlock_bh(&br->hash_lock);
 	}
 }

-- 
1.9.1

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