net: Avoid race between network down and sysfs
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index 6ac29a4..484f587 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -77,7 +77,9 @@
if (endp == buf)
goto err;
- rtnl_lock();
+ if (!rtnl_trylock())
+ return -ERESTARTSYS;
+
if (dev_isalive(net)) {
if ((ret = (*set)(net, new)) == 0)
ret = len;