netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: fix gc

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Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 04:52:16 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	razor@...ckwall.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us, sfeldma@...il.com,
	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: fix gc_timer mod/del race condition

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@...ckwall.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:55:55 +0200

> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> 
> commit c62987bbd8a1 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to
> switchdev") introduced a timer race condition because the gc_timer can
> get rearmed after it's supposedly stopped and flushed in br_dev_delete()
> leading to a use of freed memory. So take rtnl to sync with bridge
> destruction when setting ageing_timer.
> Here's the trace reproduced with these two commands running in parallel:
> while :; do echo 10000 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/ageing_timer; done;
> while :; do brctl addbr br0; ip l set br0 up; ip l set br0 down;
> brctl delbr br0; done;
 ...
> Fixes: c62987bbd8a1 ("bridge: push bridge setting ageing_time down to switchdev")
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied, thanks.
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