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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>2013-01-15 14:34:40 -0500
committerRobert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>2013-01-28 11:13:01 -0800
commitf9184df3b99375964340c1a78e33f304bbf15f06 (patch)
tree740f3bdd627c95ee5856127dcbc0ff97ca310146 /security
parentcf02820041668b14cbfa0fbd2bab45ac79bd6174 (diff)
fcoe: close race on link speed detection in fcoe code
When creating an fcoe interfce, we call fcoe_link_speed_update before we add the lports fcoe interface to the fc_hostlist. Since network device events like NETDEV_CHANGE are only processed if an fcoe interface is found with an underlying netdev that matches the netdev of the event. Since this processing in fcoe_device_notification is how link_speed changes get communicated to the libfc code (via fcoe_link_speed_update), we have a race condition - if a NETDEV_CHANGE event is sent after the call to fcoe_link_speed_update in fcoe_netdev_config, but before we add the interface to the fc_hostlist, we will loose the event and attributes like /sys/class/fc_host/hostX/speed will not get updated properly. Fix this by moving the add to the fc_hostlist above the serialized call to fcoe_netdev_config, ensuring that we catch netdev envents before we make a direct call to fcoe_link_speed_update. Also use this opportunity to clean up access to the fc_hostlist a bit by creating a fcoe_hostlist_del accessor and replacing the cleanup in fcoe_exit to use it properly. Tested by myself successfully [ Comment over 80 chars broken into multi-line by Robert Love to satisfy checkpatch.pl ] Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Reviewed-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
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