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authorSven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>2008-08-14 03:55:22 +0000
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-08-20 11:15:26 -0700
commit1cc2f16f28ccfc4c0b477e3b0de7b89817876938 (patch)
tree0a252faed7300d25cf59e48b2559f2654a3e461f /net
parentb50504f77c63d836cd2ed62d3e675353970b4d58 (diff)
ipvs: Fix possible deadlock in estimator code
commit 8ab19ea36c5c5340ff598e4d15fc084eb65671dc upstream There is a slight chance for a deadlock in the estimator code. We can't call del_timer_sync() while holding our lock, as the timer might be active and spinning for the lock on another cpu. Work around this issue by using try_to_del_timer_sync() and releasing the lock. We could actually delete the timer outside of our lock, as the add and kill functions are only every called from userspace via [gs]etsockopt() and are serialized by a mutex, but better make this explicit. Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c b/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c
index dfa0d713c801..f97ffc5a6b8a 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c
@@ -172,8 +172,11 @@ void ip_vs_kill_estimator(struct ip_vs_stats *stats)
kfree(est);
killed++;
}
- if (killed && est_list == NULL)
- del_timer_sync(&est_timer);
+ while (killed && !est_list && try_to_del_timer_sync(&est_timer) < 0) {
+ write_unlock_bh(&est_lock);
+ cpu_relax();
+ write_lock_bh(&est_lock);
+ }
write_unlock_bh(&est_lock);
}