[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "ipv4: fix possible seqlock deadlock" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Dec 11 14:39:37 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipv4: fix possible seqlock deadlock

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 67137ac9c17f742f8c33eaea22e6d68609014f79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:37:54 -0800
Subject: ipv4: fix possible seqlock deadlock

commit c9e9042994d37cbc1ee538c500e9da1bb9d1bcdf upstream.

ip4_datagram_connect() being called from process context,
it should use IP_INC_STATS() instead of IP_INC_STATS_BH()
otherwise we can deadlock on 32bit arches, or get corruptions of
SNMP counters.

Fixes: 584bdf8cbdf6 ("[IPV4]: Fix "ipOutNoRoutes" counter error for TCP and UDP")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/datagram.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/datagram.c b/net/ipv4/datagram.c
index b28e863..19e3637 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/datagram.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/datagram.c
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ int ip4_datagram_connect(struct sock *sk, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
 	if (IS_ERR(rt)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(rt);
 		if (err == -ENETUNREACH)
-			IP_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
+			IP_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
 		goto out;
 	}

--
1.8.3.2





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