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author | Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> | 2009-03-15 20:00:19 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-03-15 20:00:19 -0700 |
commit | 7cd0a63872ac6ef97265f07adc367ca4f984468e (patch) | |
tree | 44265aa422b3133b07eee87280cca3c89225437a /net/ipv4/tcp_input.c | |
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pkt_sched: Change misleading code in class delete.
While looking for a possible reason of bugzilla report on HTB oops:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12858
I found the code in htb_delete calling htb_destroy_class on zero
refcount is very misleading: it can suggest this is a common path, and
destroy is called under sch_tree_lock. Actually, this can never happen
like this because before deletion cops->get() is done, and after
delete a class is still used by tclass_notify. The class destroy is
always called from cops->put(), so without sch_tree_lock.
This doesn't mean much now (since 2.6.27) because all vulnerable calls
were moved from htb_destroy_class to htb_delete, but there was a bug
in older kernels. The same change is done for other classful scheds,
which, it seems, didn't have similar locking problems here.
Reported-by: m0sia <m0sia@m0sia.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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