netdev - Re: BUG: when using 'brctl stp'

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Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:18:22 +0200
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bridge@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: BUG: when using 'brctl stp'

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:11:05PM +0100, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> Bridge locking for /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/stp_enabled
> was wrong.  Another bug in bridge utilities makes it such that
> this interface, meant it wasn't being used.  The locking needs
> to be removed from set_stp_state(), the lock is already acquired
> down in br_stp_start()/br_stp_stop.

The 'locking' in set_stp_state() is actually dropping the lock
around the br_stp_set_enabled() invocation, not acquiring it:


> @@ -150,9 +150,7 @@ static ssize_t show_stp_state(struct dev
>  static void set_stp_state(struct net_bridge *br, unsigned long val)
>  {
>  	rtnl_lock();
> -	spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);
>  	br_stp_set_enabled(br, val);
> -	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
>  	rtnl_unlock();
>  }
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