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| author | Shani Michaelli <shanim@mellanox.com> | 2014-05-14 12:15:15 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-05-14 15:40:33 -0400 |
| commit | fe1ff29dd4989f6371e8d78bc340f596f4a78e04 (patch) | |
| tree | 19a379498dbb834136394ff20b57958e04f24ef6 /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox | |
| parent | 483e01320eee45a32061c874a09cbac275effe24 (diff) | |
net/mlx4_en: Protect MAC address modification with the state_lock mutex
This Patches solves an issue that could raise when modifying the
device's MAC. It occurs due to a simultaneous access to priv->mac_hash
from two contexts. The buggy scenario described below:
Context 1: copy the new mac address to the dev->dev_addr field.
Context 2: mlx4_en_do_uc_filter removes prev_mac entry from the mac_hash
db since it is not in dev->uc and not equal to dev->dev_addr.
Context 1: mlx4_en_do_set_mac() calls mlx4_en_replace_mac() to replace
prev_mac with dev_addr but it fails to update the mac_hash db
since it no longer contains prev_mac, therefore it returns
with an error.
The fix is to prevent mlx4_en_do_uc_filter from being executed by both
of the context 1 calls described above, This is done by putting them
both under the mdev->state_lock lock, it will solve this issue since
mlx4_en_do_uc_filter is already protected by the mdev->state_lock.
Reviewed-by: Eyal Perry <eyalpe@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Shani Michaeli <shanim@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c index c0247945d835..8e8fb69fa871 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_netdev.c @@ -789,9 +789,8 @@ static int mlx4_en_set_mac(struct net_device *dev, void *addr) if (!is_valid_ether_addr(saddr->sa_data)) return -EADDRNOTAVAIL; - memcpy(dev->dev_addr, saddr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); - mutex_lock(&mdev->state_lock); + memcpy(dev->dev_addr, saddr->sa_data, ETH_ALEN); err = mlx4_en_do_set_mac(priv); mutex_unlock(&mdev->state_lock); |