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authorPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>2007-07-14 18:51:31 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-07-14 18:51:31 -0700
commit24023451c8df726692e2f52288a20870d13b501f (patch)
treeb80c48dfe817a1a18484dadbc110ca07353c86c8 /net
parente6c9116d1dc984cb7ecf1b0fe26ca4a8ab36bb57 (diff)
downloadlinux-24023451c8df726692e2f52288a20870d13b501f.tar.bz2
[NET]: Add net_device change_rx_mode callback
Currently the set_multicast_list (and set_rx_mode) callbacks are responsible for configuring the device according to the IFF_PROMISC, IFF_MULTICAST and IFF_ALLMULTI flags and the mc_list (and uc_list in case of set_rx_mode). These callbacks can be invoked from BH context without the rtnl_mutex by dev_mc_add/dev_mc_delete, which makes reading the device flags and promiscous/allmulti count racy. For real hardware drivers that just commit all changes to the hardware this is not a real problem since the stack guarantees to call them for every change, so at least the final call will not race and commit the correct configuration to the hardware. For software devices that want to synchronize promiscous and multicast state to an underlying device however this can cause corruption of the underlying device's flags or promisc/allmulti counts. When the software device is concurrently put in promiscous or allmulti mode while set_multicast_list is invoked from bottem half context, the device might synchronize the change to the underlying device without holding the rtnl_mutex, which races with concurrent changes to the underlying device. Add a dev->change_rx_flags hook that is invoked when any of the flags that affect rx filtering change (under the rtnl_mutex), which allows drivers to perform synchronization immediately and only synchronize the address lists in set_multicast_list/set_rx_mode. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 96443055324e..59ec811d2b54 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2521,6 +2521,8 @@ static void __dev_set_promiscuity(struct net_device *dev, int inc)
{
unsigned short old_flags = dev->flags;
+ ASSERT_RTNL();
+
if ((dev->promiscuity += inc) == 0)
dev->flags &= ~IFF_PROMISC;
else
@@ -2535,6 +2537,9 @@ static void __dev_set_promiscuity(struct net_device *dev, int inc)
dev->name, (dev->flags & IFF_PROMISC),
(old_flags & IFF_PROMISC),
audit_get_loginuid(current->audit_context));
+
+ if (dev->change_rx_flags)
+ dev->change_rx_flags(dev, IFF_PROMISC);
}
}
@@ -2573,11 +2578,16 @@ void dev_set_allmulti(struct net_device *dev, int inc)
{
unsigned short old_flags = dev->flags;
+ ASSERT_RTNL();
+
dev->flags |= IFF_ALLMULTI;
if ((dev->allmulti += inc) == 0)
dev->flags &= ~IFF_ALLMULTI;
- if (dev->flags ^ old_flags)
+ if (dev->flags ^ old_flags) {
+ if (dev->change_rx_flags)
+ dev->change_rx_flags(dev, IFF_ALLMULTI);
dev_set_rx_mode(dev);
+ }
}
/*
@@ -2778,6 +2788,8 @@ int dev_change_flags(struct net_device *dev, unsigned flags)
int ret, changes;
int old_flags = dev->flags;
+ ASSERT_RTNL();
+
/*
* Set the flags on our device.
*/
@@ -2792,6 +2804,9 @@ int dev_change_flags(struct net_device *dev, unsigned flags)
* Load in the correct multicast list now the flags have changed.
*/
+ if (dev->change_rx_flags && (dev->flags ^ flags) & IFF_MULTICAST)
+ dev->change_rx_flags(dev, IFF_MULTICAST);
+
dev_set_rx_mode(dev);
/*