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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:10:56 +0800 From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> To: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com> Cc: Phil Sutter <psutter@...hat.com>, davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: Fix tipc_sk_reinit handling of -EAGAIN On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:43:02AM -0400, Bob Peterson wrote: > Hi, > > In 9dbbfb0ab6680c6a85609041011484e6658e7d3c function tipc_sk_reinit > had additional logic added to loop in the event that function > rhashtable_walk_next() returned -EAGAIN. No worries. > > However, if rhashtable_walk_start returns -EAGAIN, it does "continue", > and therefore skips the call to rhashtable_walk_stop(). That has > the effect of calling rcu_read_lock() without its paired call to > rcu_read_unlock(). Since rcu_read_lock() may be nested, the problem > may not be apparent for a while, especially since resize events may > be rare. But the comments to rhashtable_walk_start() state: > > * ...Note that we take the RCU lock in all > * cases including when we return an error. So you must always call > * rhashtable_walk_stop to clean up. > > This patch replaces the continue with a goto and label to ensure a > matching call to rhashtable_walk_stop(). > > Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Thanks for catching this! -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
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