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Commit e7169530 authored by Michael S. Tsirkin's avatar Michael S. Tsirkin Committed by David S. Miller
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ptr_ring: fix race conditions when resizing



Resizing currently drops consumer lock.  This can cause entries to be
reordered, which isn't good in itself.  More importantly, consumer can
detect a false ring empty condition and block forever.

Further, nesting of consumer within producer lock is problematic for
tun, since it produces entries in a BH, which causes a lock order
reversal:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  consume:
  lock(&(&r->consumer_lock)->rlock);
                               resize:
                               local_irq_disable();
                               lock(&(&r->producer_lock)->rlock);
                               lock(&(&r->consumer_lock)->rlock);
  <Interrupt>
  produce:
  lock(&(&r->producer_lock)->rlock);

To fix, nest producer lock within consumer lock during resize,
and keep consumer lock during the whole swap operation.

Reported-by: default avatarDmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: default avatarJason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent d4e854cc
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