netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bridge: netlink: fix slave_changelink/br

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Date:	Sun, 26 Jul 2015 16:28:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	razor@...ckwall.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bridge: netlink: fix slave_changelink/br_setport
 race conditions

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:03:40 +0200

> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> Since slave_changelink support was added there have been a few race
> conditions when using br_setport() since some of the port functions it
> uses require the bridge lock. It is very easy to trigger a lockup due to
> some internal spin_lock() usage without bh disabled, also it's possible to
> get the bridge into an inconsistent state.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Fixes: 3ac636b8591c ("bridge: implement rtnl_link_ops->slave_changelink")

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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