linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.1 13/56] xen-netback: fix a BUG() during initialization

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Date:	Wed,  8 Jul 2015 00:35:02 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Imre Palik <imrep@...zon.de>,
	Matt Wilson <msw@...zon.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.1 13/56] xen-netback: fix a BUG() during initialization

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

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

From: "Palik, Imre" <imrep@...zon.de>

[ Upstream commit 12b322ac85208de564ecf23aa754d796a91de21f ]

Commit edafc132baac ("xen-netback: making the bandwidth limiter runtime settable")
introduced the capability to change the bandwidth rate limit at runtime.
But it also introduced a possible crashing bug.

If netback receives two XenbusStateConnected without getting the
hotplug-status watch firing in between, then it will try to register the
watches for the rate limiter again.  But this triggers a BUG() in the watch
registration code.

The fix modifies connect() to remove the possibly existing packet-rate
watches before trying to install those watches.  This behaviour is in line
with how connect() deals with the hotplug-status watch.

Signed-off-by: Imre Palik <imrep@...zon.de>
Cc: Matt Wilson <msw@...zon.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -681,6 +681,9 @@ static int xen_register_watchers(struct
 	char *node;
 	unsigned maxlen = strlen(dev->nodename) + sizeof("/rate");
 
+	if (vif->credit_watch.node)
+		return -EADDRINUSE;
+
 	node = kmalloc(maxlen, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!node)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -770,6 +773,7 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info
 	}
 
 	xen_net_read_rate(dev, &credit_bytes, &credit_usec);
+	xen_unregister_watchers(be->vif);
 	xen_register_watchers(dev, be->vif);
 	read_xenbus_vif_flags(be);
 


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