From: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2015 16:39:27 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: net: Fix race condition in store_rps_map
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=10e4ea751;p=linux-beck.git

net: Fix race condition in store_rps_map

There is a race condition in store_rps_map that allows jump label
count in rps_needed to go below zero. This can happen when
concurrently attempting to set and a clear map.

Scenario:

1. rps_needed count is zero
2. New map is assigned by setting thread, but rps_needed count _not_ yet
   incremented (rps_needed count still zero)
2. Map is cleared by second thread, old_map set to that just assigned
3. Second thread performs static_key_slow_dec, rps_needed count now goes
   negative

Fix is to increment or decrement rps_needed under the spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 194c1d03b2b3..39ec6949c1e6 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -726,14 +726,17 @@ static ssize_t store_rps_map(struct netdev_rx_queue *queue,
 	old_map = rcu_dereference_protected(queue->rps_map,
 					    lockdep_is_held(&rps_map_lock));
 	rcu_assign_pointer(queue->rps_map, map);
-	spin_unlock(&rps_map_lock);
 
 	if (map)
 		static_key_slow_inc(&rps_needed);
-	if (old_map) {
-		kfree_rcu(old_map, rcu);
+	if (old_map)
 		static_key_slow_dec(&rps_needed);
-	}
+
+	spin_unlock(&rps_map_lock);
+
+	if (old_map)
+		kfree_rcu(old_map, rcu);
+
 	free_cpumask_var(mask);
 	return len;
 }