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[Patch net-next v2] netpoll: fix a rtnl lock assertion failure

From: Cong Wang <hidden>
Date: 2013-01-14 10:24:28
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Cong Wang <redacted>

This patch fixes the following warning:

[   72.013864] RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (4955)
[   72.017758] Pid: 668, comm: netpoll-prep-v6 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc1+ #474
[   72.019582] Call Trace:
[   72.020295]  [<ffffffff8176653d>] netdev_master_upper_dev_get+0x35/0x58
[   72.022545]  [<ffffffff81784edd>] netpoll_setup+0x61/0x340
[   72.024846]  [<ffffffff815d837e>] store_enabled+0x82/0xc3
[   72.027466]  [<ffffffff815d7e51>] netconsole_target_attr_store+0x35/0x37
[   72.029348]  [<ffffffff811c3479>] configfs_write_file+0xe2/0x10c
[   72.030959]  [<ffffffff8115d239>] vfs_write+0xaf/0xf6
[   72.032359]  [<ffffffff81978a05>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
[   72.033824]  [<ffffffff8115d453>] sys_write+0x5c/0x84
[   72.035328]  [<ffffffff819789d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Just hold RCU read lock and call netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu(),
as suggested by Jiri.

Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <redacted>

---
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 9f05067..6d56b57 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -1055,11 +1055,15 @@ int netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
-	if (netdev_master_upper_dev_get(ndev)) {
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	/* We permit devices with VLAN attached to */
+	if (netdev_master_upper_dev_get_rcu(ndev)) {
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 		np_err(np, "%s is a slave device, aborting\n", np->dev_name);
 		err = -EBUSY;
 		goto put;
 	}
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (!netif_running(ndev)) {
 		unsigned long atmost, atleast;
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