From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:55:03 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: netpoll: Disable IRQ around RCU dereference in netpoll_rx
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0f9deae9e7c4;p=linux-beck.git

netpoll: Disable IRQ around RCU dereference in netpoll_rx

We cannot use rcu_dereference_bh safely in netpoll_rx as we may
be called with IRQs disabled.  We could however simply disable
IRQs as that too causes BH to be disabled and is safe in either
case.

Thanks to John Linville for discovering this bug and providing
a patch.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
index 791d5109f34c..50d8009be86c 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -63,20 +63,20 @@ static inline bool netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	bool ret = false;
 
-	rcu_read_lock_bh();
+	local_irq_save(flags);
 	npinfo = rcu_dereference_bh(skb->dev->npinfo);
 
 	if (!npinfo || (list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np) && !npinfo->rx_flags))
 		goto out;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&npinfo->rx_lock);
 	/* check rx_flags again with the lock held */
 	if (npinfo->rx_flags && __netpoll_rx(skb))
 		ret = true;
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&npinfo->rx_lock);
 
 out:
-	rcu_read_unlock_bh();
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	return ret;
 }