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authorNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>2015-06-06 06:49:00 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-06-22 17:01:18 -0700
commit44da7386bb0bee83d2a11717e43730c27f4da717 (patch)
tree21b6893c9c10cf8289b3069ee16f1cb58ff89823 /drivers
parentfa730505072b85750f21f652783bb595dc22bbd5 (diff)
bridge: disable softirqs around br_fdb_update to avoid lockup
[ Upstream commit c4c832f89dc468cf11dc0dd17206bace44526651 ] br_fdb_update() can be called in process context in the following way: br_fdb_add() -> __br_fdb_add() -> br_fdb_update() (if NTF_USE flag is set) so we need to disable softirqs because there are softirq users of the hash_lock. One easy way to reproduce this is to modify the bridge utility to set NTF_USE, enable stp and then set maxageing to a low value so br_fdb_cleanup() is called frequently and then just add new entries in a loop. This happens because br_fdb_cleanup() is called from timer/softirq context. The spin locks in br_fdb_update were _bh before commit f8ae737deea1 ("[BRIDGE]: forwarding remove unneeded preempt and bh diasables") and at the time that commit was correct because br_fdb_update() couldn't be called from process context, but that changed after commit: 292d1398983f ("bridge: add NTF_USE support") Using local_bh_disable/enable around br_fdb_update() allows us to keep using the spin_lock/unlock in br_fdb_update for the fast-path. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> Fixes: 292d1398983f ("bridge: add NTF_USE support") Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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