This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    netlink: Disable insertions/removals during rehash

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     netlink-disable-insertions-removals-during-rehash.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From foo@baz Sat Jun 13 09:48:35 PDT 2015
From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 21:16:28 +0800
Subject: netlink: Disable insertions/removals during rehash

From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit: Not applicable ]

The current rhashtable rehash code is buggy and can't deal with
parallel insertions/removals without corrupting the hash table.

This patch disables it by partially reverting
c5adde9468b0714a051eac7f9666f23eb10b61f7 ("netlink: eliminate
nl_sk_hash_lock").

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *s
        struct netlink_table *table = &nl_table[sk->sk_protocol];
        int err;
 
-       lock_sock(sk);
+       mutex_lock(&table->hash.mutex);
 
        err = -EBUSY;
        if (nlk_sk(sk)->portid)
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *s
        }
 
 err:
-       release_sock(sk);
+       mutex_unlock(&table->hash.mutex);
        return err;
 }
 
@@ -1083,10 +1083,12 @@ static void netlink_remove(struct sock *
        struct netlink_table *table;
 
        table = &nl_table[sk->sk_protocol];
+       mutex_lock(&table->hash.mutex);
        if (rhashtable_remove(&table->hash, &nlk_sk(sk)->node)) {
                WARN_ON(atomic_read(&sk->sk_refcnt) == 1);
                __sock_put(sk);
        }
+       mutex_unlock(&table->hash.mutex);
 
        netlink_table_grab();
        if (nlk_sk(sk)->subscriptions) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-4.0/netlink-disable-insertions-removals-during-rehash.patch
queue-4.0/netlink-reset-portid-after-netlink_insert-failure.patch
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