bonding: fix store_arp_validate race with mode change
authornikolay@redhat.com <nikolay@redhat.com>
Fri, 6 Sep 2013 22:00:25 +0000 (00:00 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:55:17 +0000 (15:55 -0400)
We need to protect store_arp_validate via rtnl because it can race with
mode changing and we can end up having arp_validate set in a mode
different from active-backup.

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c

index ce46776..4e38683 100644 (file)
@@ -419,27 +419,33 @@ static ssize_t bonding_store_arp_validate(struct device *d,
                                          struct device_attribute *attr,
                                          const char *buf, size_t count)
 {
-       int new_value;
+       int new_value, ret = count;
        struct bonding *bond = to_bond(d);
 
+       if (!rtnl_trylock())
+               return restart_syscall();
        new_value = bond_parse_parm(buf, arp_validate_tbl);
        if (new_value < 0) {
                pr_err("%s: Ignoring invalid arp_validate value %s\n",
                       bond->dev->name, buf);
-               return -EINVAL;
+               ret = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
        }
        if (new_value && (bond->params.mode != BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP)) {
                pr_err("%s: arp_validate only supported in active-backup mode.\n",
                       bond->dev->name);
-               return -EINVAL;
+               ret = -EINVAL;
+               goto out;
        }
        pr_info("%s: setting arp_validate to %s (%d).\n",
                bond->dev->name, arp_validate_tbl[new_value].modename,
                new_value);
 
        bond->params.arp_validate = new_value;
+out:
+       rtnl_unlock();
 
-       return count;
+       return ret;
 }
 
 static DEVICE_ATTR(arp_validate, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, bonding_show_arp_validate,