tree 65141acd5f97da77b3b997646ec270b4037ac1bb
parent fec31ffffa6e05845ab13908d0ac0d5a10816836
author WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> 1443724662 -0700
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1444051833 -0700

act_mirred: fix a race condition on mirred_list

After commit 1ce87720d456 ("net: sched: make cls_u32 lockless")
we began to release tc actions in a RCU callback. However,
mirred action relies on RTNL lock to protect the global
mirred_list, therefore we could have a race condition
between RCU callback and netdevice event, which caused
a list corruption as reported by Vinson.

Instead of relying on RTNL lock, introduce a spinlock to
protect this list.

Note, in non-bind case, it is still called with RTNL lock,
therefore should disable BH too.

Reported-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@twopensource.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>