On 06/11/2018 03:29 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 12:00 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerw...@citrix.com>
[ Upstream commit f599c64fdf7d9c108e8717fb04bc41c680120da4 ]
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--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
[...]
@@ -1839,6 +1824,7 @@ static int talk_to_netback(struct xenbus
goto out;
This "goto out" is outside the locked section...
}
+ rtnl_lock();
if (info->queues)
xennet_destroy_queues(info);
@@ -1849,6 +1835,7 @@ static int talk_to_netback(struct xenbus
info->queues = NULL;
goto out;
}
+ rtnl_unlock();
/* Create shared ring, alloc event channel -- for each queue */
for (i = 0; i < num_queues; ++i) {
@@ -1945,8 +1932,10 @@ abort_transaction_no_dev_fatal:
xenbus_transaction_end(xbt, 1);
destroy_ring:
xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
+ rtnl_lock();
xennet_destroy_queues(info);
out:
+ rtnl_unlock();
...so this will be an unmatched unlock.
You need to add another label below the rtnl_unlock().
Thanks for spotting this. I've sent patches to the list to fix this and
another issue with the original patch.
Regards,
--
Ross Lagerwall
