caif: Fix race when conditionally taking rtnl lock
authorsjur.brandeland@stericsson.com <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Wed, 1 Jun 2011 00:55:37 +0000 (00:55 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 2 Jun 2011 04:13:53 +0000 (21:13 -0700)
Take the RTNL lock unconditionally when calling dev_close.
Taking the lock conditionally may cause race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/caif/chnl_net.c

index 649ebacaf6bce69f29028e33c20233fb1932bbee..adbb424403d48982624f36e62418ec9cb47c0132 100644 (file)
@@ -139,17 +139,14 @@ static void close_work(struct work_struct *work)
        struct chnl_net *dev = NULL;
        struct list_head *list_node;
        struct list_head *_tmp;
-       /* May be called with or without RTNL lock held */
-       int islocked = rtnl_is_locked();
-       if (!islocked)
-               rtnl_lock();
+
+       rtnl_lock();
        list_for_each_safe(list_node, _tmp, &chnl_net_list) {
                dev = list_entry(list_node, struct chnl_net, list_field);
                if (dev->state == CAIF_SHUTDOWN)
                        dev_close(dev->netdev);
        }
-       if (!islocked)
-               rtnl_unlock();
+       rtnl_unlock();
 }
 static DECLARE_WORK(close_worker, close_work);