[patch 11/37] NET_SCHED: Fix ingress qdisc locking.

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Mar 30 2007 - 17:23:23 EST


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

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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>

[NET_SCHED]: Fix ingress locking

Ingress queueing uses a seperate lock for serializing enqueue operations,
but fails to properly protect itself against concurrent changes to the
qdisc tree. Use queue_lock for now since the real fix it quite intrusive.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
net/core/dev.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1750,10 +1750,10 @@ static int ing_filter(struct sk_buff *sk

skb->tc_verd = SET_TC_AT(skb->tc_verd,AT_INGRESS);

- spin_lock(&dev->ingress_lock);
+ spin_lock(&dev->queue_lock);
if ((q = dev->qdisc_ingress) != NULL)
result = q->enqueue(skb, q);
- spin_unlock(&dev->ingress_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&dev->queue_lock);

}


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