ptr_ring: fix race conditions when resizing
Resizing currently drops consumer lock. This can cause entries to be reordered, which isn't good in itself. More importantly, consumer can detect a false ring empty condition and block forever. Further, nesting of consumer within producer lock is problematic for tun, since it produces entries in a BH, which causes a lock order reversal: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- consume: lock(&(&r->consumer_lock)->rlock); resize: local_irq_disable(); lock(&(&r->producer_lock)->rlock); lock(&(&r->consumer_lock)->rlock); <Interrupt> produce: lock(&(&r->producer_lock)->rlock); To fix, nest producer lock within consumer lock during resize, and keep consumer lock during the whole swap operation. Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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