3.16.60-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Guillaume Nault <[email protected]> commit 0171c41835591e9aa2e384b703ef9a6ae367c610 upstream. ppp_dev_uninit(), which is the .ndo_uninit() handler of PPP devices, needs to lock pn->all_ppp_mutex. Therefore we mustn't call register_netdevice() with pn->all_ppp_mutex already locked, or we'd deadlock in case register_netdevice() fails and calls .ndo_uninit(). Fortunately, we can unlock pn->all_ppp_mutex before calling register_netdevice(). This lock protects pn->units_idr, which isn't used in the device registration process. However, keeping pn->all_ppp_mutex locked during device registration did ensure that no device in transient state would be published in pn->units_idr. In practice, unlocking it before calling register_netdevice() doesn't change this property: ppp_unit_register() is called with 'ppp_mutex' locked and all searches done in pn->units_idr hold this lock too. Fixes: 8cb775bc0a34 ("ppp: fix device unregistration upon netns deletion") Reported-and-tested-by: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c @@ -2788,6 +2788,8 @@ static struct ppp *ppp_create_interface( ppp->file.index = unit; sprintf(dev->name, "ppp%d", unit); + mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex); + ret = register_netdevice(dev); if (ret != 0) { /* register_netdevice() may have called ppp_dev_init() @@ -2796,6 +2798,7 @@ static struct ppp *ppp_create_interface( */ if (dev->qdisc_tx_busylock) ppp_dev_priv_destructor(dev); + mutex_lock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex); unit_put(&pn->units_idr, unit); netdev_err(ppp->dev, "PPP: couldn't register device %s (%d)\n", dev->name, ret); @@ -2803,7 +2806,6 @@ static struct ppp *ppp_create_interface( } atomic_inc(&ppp_unit_count); - mutex_unlock(&pn->all_ppp_mutex); rtnl_unlock(); *retp = 0;
