[PATCH net-next 2/8] net/mlx4_core: Protect port type setting by mutex
From: Or Gerlitz <hidden>
Date: 2014-10-30 16:07:05
Subsystem:
mellanox mlx4 core vpi driver, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Tariq Toukan, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Amir Vadai <redacted> We need to protect set_port_type() for concurrency, as the sysfs code could call it from mutliple contexts in parallel. The port_mutex is not enough because we need to protect from concurrent modification of 'info' and stopping of the port sensing work. Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <redacted> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
index 90de6e1..9f82196 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/main.c@@ -901,9 +901,12 @@ static ssize_t set_port_type(struct device *dev, struct mlx4_priv *priv = mlx4_priv(mdev); enum mlx4_port_type types[MLX4_MAX_PORTS]; enum mlx4_port_type new_types[MLX4_MAX_PORTS]; + static DEFINE_MUTEX(set_port_type_mutex); int i; int err = 0; + mutex_lock(&set_port_type_mutex); + if (!strcmp(buf, "ib\n")) info->tmp_type = MLX4_PORT_TYPE_IB; else if (!strcmp(buf, "eth\n"))
@@ -912,7 +915,8 @@ static ssize_t set_port_type(struct device *dev, info->tmp_type = MLX4_PORT_TYPE_AUTO; else { mlx4_err(mdev, "%s is not supported port type\n", buf); - return -EINVAL; + err = -EINVAL; + goto err_out; } mlx4_stop_sense(mdev);
@@ -958,6 +962,9 @@ static ssize_t set_port_type(struct device *dev, out: mlx4_start_sense(mdev); mutex_unlock(&priv->port_mutex); +err_out: + mutex_unlock(&set_port_type_mutex); + return err ? err : count; }
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