[PATCH 3.8 12/91] bonding: fix two race conditions in bond_store_updelay/downdelay

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Thu Jan 02 2014 - 12:28:43 EST


3.8.13.15 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit b869ccfab1e324507fa3596e3e1308444fb68227 ]

This patch fixes two race conditions between bond_store_updelay/downdelay
and bond_store_miimon which could lead to division by zero as miimon can
be set to 0 while either updelay/downdelay are being set and thus miss the
zero check in the beginning, the zero div happens because updelay/downdelay
are stored as new_value / bond->params.miimon. Use rtnl to synchronize with
miimon setting.

CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index da7b379..f0a65ed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -693,6 +693,8 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_downdelay(struct device *d,
int new_value, ret = count;
struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);

+ if (!rtnl_trylock())
+ return restart_syscall();
if (!(bond->params.miimon)) {
pr_err("%s: Unable to set down delay as MII monitoring is disabled\n",
bond->dev->name);
@@ -726,6 +728,7 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_downdelay(struct device *d,
}

out:
+ rtnl_unlock();
return ret;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(downdelay, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
@@ -748,6 +751,8 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_updelay(struct device *d,
int new_value, ret = count;
struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);

+ if (!rtnl_trylock())
+ return restart_syscall();
if (!(bond->params.miimon)) {
pr_err("%s: Unable to set up delay as MII monitoring is disabled\n",
bond->dev->name);
@@ -781,6 +786,7 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_updelay(struct device *d,
}

out:
+ rtnl_unlock();
return ret;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(updelay, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,
--
1.8.3.2

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