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authorHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2007-07-30 16:35:46 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-07-31 02:28:13 -0700
commit7f988eab57bd22884bbc452fb04c6c18738666b3 (patch)
treed679707a0251dc3d399de7e52c5499dff521c86e /net/core
parent7ce1b0edcb11f90f6fc5e0ceecff467f329889a0 (diff)
[NET]: Take dev_base_lock when moving device name hash list entry
When we added name-based hashing the dev_base_lock was designated as the lock to take when changing the name hash list. Unfortunately, because it was a preexisting lock that just happened to be taken in the right spots we neglected to take it in dev_change_name. The race can affect calles of __dev_get_by_name that do so without taking the RTNL. They may end up walking down the wrong hash chain and end up missing the device that they're looking for. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 7bfea5e9030..346cbf66534 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -839,8 +839,12 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, char *newname)
strlcpy(dev->name, newname, IFNAMSIZ);
device_rename(&dev->dev, dev->name);
+
+ write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
hlist_del(&dev->name_hlist);
hlist_add_head(&dev->name_hlist, dev_name_hash(dev->name));
+ write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock);
+
raw_notifier_call_chain(&netdev_chain, NETDEV_CHANGENAME, dev);
return err;