From: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:44:46 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [IPV4]: severe locking bug in fib_semantics.c
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.18-rc5~76^2~3
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[IPV4]: severe locking bug in fib_semantics.c

Found in 2.4 by Yixin Pan <yxpan@hotmail.com>.

> When I read fib_semantics.c of Linux-2.4.32, write_lock(&fib_info_lock) =
> is used in fib_release_info() instead of write_lock_bh(&fib_info_lock).  =
> Is the following case possible: a BH interrupts fib_release_info() while =
> holding the write lock, and calls ip_check_fib_default() which calls =
> read_lock(&fib_info_lock), and spin forever.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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