team: avoid race condition in scheduling delayed work
authorJoe Lawrence <Joe.Lawrence@stratus.com>
Fri, 3 Oct 2014 13:58:34 +0000 (09:58 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:05:30 +0000 (12:05 +0200)
commit1f8649d07512f88a2f9a0e297e4616834e162857
tree8a250efaa7186e7566e87c9e93b806cdf00b500b
parentd24e8812d4fd0ef52abcb66df2bc23d310018caa
team: avoid race condition in scheduling delayed work

[ Upstream commit 47549650abd13d873fd2e5fc218db19e21031074 ]

When team_notify_peers and team_mcast_rejoin are called, they both reset
their respective .count_pending atomic variable. Then when the actual
worker function is executed, the variable is atomically decremented.
This pattern introduces a potential race condition where the
.count_pending rolls over and the worker function keeps rescheduling
until .count_pending decrements to zero again:

THREAD 1                           THREAD 2

========                           ========
team_notify_peers(teamX)
  atomic_set count_pending = 1
  schedule_delayed_work
                                   team_notify_peers(teamX)
                                   atomic_set count_pending = 1
team_notify_peers_work
  atomic_dec_and_test
    count_pending = 0
  (return)
                                   schedule_delayed_work
                                   team_notify_peers_work
                                   atomic_dec_and_test
                                     count_pending = -1
                                   schedule_delayed_work
                                   (repeat until count_pending = 0)

Instead of assigning a new value to .count_pending, use atomic_add to
tack-on the additional desired worker function invocations.

Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Fixes: fc423ff00df3a19554414ee ("team: add peer notification")
Fixes: 492b200efdd20b8fcfdac87 ("team: add support for sending multicast rejoins")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/team/team.c