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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/1] net: Add rtnl_lock for netif_device_attach/detach
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 03:08:02PM +0800, Li, Zhen-Hua wrote:
>From: "Li, Zhen-Hua" <zhen-hual@hp.com>
>
>As netif_running is called in netif_device_attach/detach. There should be
>rtnl_lock/unlock called, to avoid dev stat change during netif_device_attach
>and detach being called.
>I checked NIC some drivers, some of them have netif_device_attach/detach
>called between rtnl_lock/unlock, while some drivers do not.

It can race with any other thread that takes the lock - i.e. suppose you
have a driver that doesn't take the lock and calls netif_device_attach(),
while another thread (completely unrelated to the issue) holds rtnl_lock -
this way the trylock will return false, the thread that took rtnl releases
it - and you'll see the exact same behaviour as without your patch.

I'm not sure about the issue you're trying to fix here - there might be a
better approach which I'm not aware of, however with your approach you
should really either remove the rtnl locking from all drivers that use this
function (and insert a normal rtnl_lock here) or, vice-versa, add it to all
drivers and add an ASSERT_RTNL to netif_device_detach/attach.

>
>This patch is tring to find a generic way to fix this for all NIC drivers.
>
>Signed-off-by: Li, Zhen-Hua <zhen-hual@hp.com>
>---
> net/core/dev.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
>index 5b3042e..795bbc5 100644
>--- a/net/core/dev.c
>+++ b/net/core/dev.c
>@@ -2190,10 +2190,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dev_kfree_skb_any);
> */
> void netif_device_detach(struct net_device *dev)
> {
>+ /**
>+ * As netif_running is called , rtnl_lock and unlock are needed to
>+ * avoid __LINK_STATE_START bit changes during this function call.
>+ */
>+ int need_unlock;
>+
>+ need_unlock = rtnl_trylock();
> if (test_and_clear_bit(__LINK_STATE_PRESENT, &dev->state) &&
> netif_running(dev)) {
> netif_tx_stop_all_queues(dev);
> }
>+ if (need_unlock)
>+ rtnl_unlock();
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_device_detach);
>
>@@ -2205,11 +2214,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_device_detach);
> */
> void netif_device_attach(struct net_device *dev)
> {
>+ /**
>+ * As netif_running is called , rtnl_lock and unlock are needed to
>+ * avoid __LINK_STATE_START bit changes during this function call.
>+ */
>+ int need_unlock;
>+
>+ need_unlock = rtnl_trylock();
> if (!test_and_set_bit(__LINK_STATE_PRESENT, &dev->state) &&
> netif_running(dev)) {
> netif_tx_wake_all_queues(dev);
> __netdev_watchdog_up(dev);
> }
>+ if (need_unlock)
>+ rtnl_unlock();
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(netif_device_attach);
>
>--
>1.7.10.4
>


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