Re: [PATCH v3 02/22] netconsole: Introduce locking over the netpoll fields
From: Michał Mirosław <hidden>
Date: 2010-12-14 23:15:26
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2010/12/14 Mike Waychison [off-list ref]:
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The netconsole driver currently doesn't do any locking over its configuration fields. This can cause problems if we were to ever have concurrent writing to fields while somebody is enabling the service. For simplicity, this patch extends targets_list_lock to cover all configuration fields within the targets. Macros are also added here to wrap accessors so that we check whether the target has been enabled with locking handled. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <redacted> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <redacted> --- drivers/net/netconsole.c | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c index c87a49e..6e16888 100644 --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c +++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c@@ -327,6 +327,7 @@ static ssize_t store_enabled(struct netconsole_target *nt,const char *buf, size_t count) { + unsigned long flags; int err; long enabled;@@ -335,6 +336,10 @@ static ssize_t store_enabled(struct netconsole_target *nt,return enabled; if (enabled) { /* 1 */ + spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags); + if (nt->enabled) + goto busy; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);
This looks wrong. Unless there is another lock or mutex covering this function, at this point (after spin_unlock_irqrestore()) another thread might set nt->enabled = 1. Best Regards, Michał Mirosław