netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] 802: fix a possible race condition

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Message-ID: <1364266900.18439.4.camel@cr0>
Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 11:01:40 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	david.ward@...mit.edu, jorge@...2.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] 802: fix a possible race condition

On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 07:08 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-25 at 21:32 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
> 
> > At least garp_join_timer() calls garp_pdu_queue() in a timer:
> > 
> > static void garp_join_timer(unsigned long data)
> > {
> >         struct garp_applicant *app = (struct garp_applicant *)data;
> > 
> >         spin_lock(&app->lock);
> >         garp_gid_event(app, GARP_EVENT_TRANSMIT_PDU);
> >         garp_pdu_queue(app);
> >         spin_unlock(&app->lock);
> > 
> >         garp_queue_xmit(app);
> >         garp_join_timer_arm(app);
> > }
> > 
> > which I don't think can hold RTNL lock possibly.
> > 
> 
> But timer wont possibly run because of the previous :
> 
> del_timer_sync(&app->join_timer);

Yeah, but in the following callchain:

garp_pdu_rcv() -> garp_pdu_parse_msg() -> garp_pdu_parse_attr() ->
garp_gid_event()

the race can happen too as garp_pdu_rcv() is called in BH context.


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