netdev - Re: bond: take rcu lock in netpoll_send_skb_on

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Date:   Mon, 01 Oct 2018 23:26:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     davej@...emonkey.org.uk
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Subject: Re: bond: take rcu lock in netpoll_send_skb_on_dev

From: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 16:26:08 -0400

> The bonding driver lacks the rcu lock when it calls down into
> netdev_lower_get_next_private_rcu from bond_poll_controller, which
> results in a trace like:
 ...
> We're also doing rcu dereferences a layer up in netpoll_send_skb_on_dev
> before we call down into netpoll_poll_dev, so just take the lock there.
> 
> Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>

Applied and queued up for -stable.