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net/802/mrp: fix possible race condition when calling mrp_pdu_queue()

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(Adapted from a very similar change to net/802/garp.c by Cong Wang.)

mrp_pdu_queue() should ways be called with the applicant spin lock.
mrp_uninit_applicant() only holds the rtnl lock which is not enough;
a race is possible because mrp_rcv() is called in BH context:

	mrp_rcv()
	  |->mrp_pdu_parse_msg()
	    |->mrp_pdu_parse_vecattr()
	      |->mrp_pdu_parse_vecattr_event()
	        |-> mrp_attr_event()
	          |-> mrp_pdu_append_vecattr_event()
	            |-> mrp_pdu_queue()

Cc: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ward <david.ward@ll.mit.edu>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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David Ward 2013-04-11 13:47:15 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 3be8fbab18
commit fb745e9a03
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@ -870,8 +870,12 @@ void mrp_uninit_applicant(struct net_device *dev, struct mrp_application *appl)
* all pending messages before the applicant is gone.
*/
del_timer_sync(&app->join_timer);
spin_lock(&app->lock);
mrp_mad_event(app, MRP_EVENT_TX);
mrp_pdu_queue(app);
spin_unlock(&app->lock);
mrp_queue_xmit(app);
dev_mc_del(dev, appl->group_address);