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    net: fix a data race when get vlan device · c1102e9d
    Di Zhu authored
    We encountered a crash: in the packet receiving process, we got an
    illegal VLAN device address, but the VLAN device address saved in vmcore
    is correct. After checking the code, we found a possible data
    competition:
    CPU 0:                             CPU 1:
        (RCU read lock)                  (RTNL lock)
        vlan_do_receive()		       register_vlan_dev()
          vlan_find_dev()
    
            ->__vlan_group_get_device()	 ->vlan_group_prealloc_vid()
    
    In vlan_group_prealloc_vid(), We need to make sure that memset()
    in kzalloc() is executed before assigning  value to vlan devices array:
    =================================
    kzalloc()
        ->memset(object, 0, size)
    
    smp_wmb()
    
    vg->vlan_devices_arrays[pidx][vidx] = array;
    ==================================
    
    Because __vlan_group_get_device() function depends on this order.
    otherwise we may get a wrong address from the hardware cache on
    another cpu.
    
    So fix it by adding memory barrier instruction to ensure the order
    of memory operations.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDi Zhu <zhudi21@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    c1102e9d
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