bonding: fix set mode race conditions
Changing the mode without any locking can result in multiple races (e.g.
upping a bond, enslaving/releasing). Depending on which race is hit the
impact can vary from incosistent bond state to kernel crash.
Use RTNL to synchronize the mode setting with the dangerous races.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
index ea7a388..77ea237 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c
@@ -316,6 +316,9 @@
int new_value, ret = count;
struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
+ if (!rtnl_trylock())
+ return restart_syscall();
+
if (bond->dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
pr_err("unable to update mode of %s because interface is up.\n",
bond->dev->name);
@@ -352,6 +355,7 @@
bond->dev->name, bond_mode_tbl[new_value].modename,
new_value);
out:
+ rtnl_unlock();
return ret;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(mode, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,