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| author | Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> | 2010-10-13 16:01:49 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-10-18 08:32:07 -0700 |
| commit | c2355e1ab910278a94d487b78590ee3c8eecd08a (patch) | |
| tree | 6a3adce66355ad36483500475f9931d0e359695e /net/core | |
| parent | c6ce3854f098e1307ecd3bde07903d65fb14a9cb (diff) | |
bonding: Fix bonding drivers improper modification of netpoll structure
The bonding driver currently modifies the netpoll structure in its xmit path
while sending frames from netpoll. This is racy, as other cpus can access the
netpoll structure in parallel. Since the bonding driver points np->dev to a
slave device, other cpus can inadvertently attempt to send data directly to
slave devices, leading to improper locking with the bonding master, lost frames,
and deadlocks. This patch fixes that up.
This patch also removes the real_dev pointer from the netpoll structure as that
data is really only used by bonding in the poll_controller, and we can emulate
its behavior by check each slave for IS_UP.
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/netpoll.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index 537e01afd81b..4e98ffac3af0 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -288,11 +288,11 @@ static int netpoll_owner_active(struct net_device *dev) return 0; } -void netpoll_send_skb(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb) +void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb, + struct net_device *dev) { int status = NETDEV_TX_BUSY; unsigned long tries; - struct net_device *dev = np->dev; const struct net_device_ops *ops = dev->netdev_ops; /* It is up to the caller to keep npinfo alive. */ struct netpoll_info *npinfo = np->dev->npinfo; @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ void netpoll_send_skb(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb) schedule_delayed_work(&npinfo->tx_work,0); } } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(netpoll_send_skb); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(netpoll_send_skb_on_dev); void netpoll_send_udp(struct netpoll *np, const char *msg, int len) { |