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[PATCH 2.6]: Resolve race condition with module unload in qdisc_create

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH 2.6]: Resolve race condition with module unload in qdisc_create
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 02:00:21 +0200
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sender: netdev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040413 Debian/1.6-5
This patch resolves the race condition with module unload
in qdisc_create by moving try_module_get up to the first
qdisc_lookup_ops call.

# This is a BitKeeper generated diff -Nru style patch.
#
# ChangeSet
#   2004/08/17 01:32:55+02:00 kaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
#   [PKT_SCHED]: Resolve race condition with module unload in qdisc_create()
#   
#   Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
# 
# net/sched/sch_api.c
#   2004/08/17 01:32:36+02:00 kaber@xxxxxxxxxxxx +6 -13
#   [PKT_SCHED]: Resolve race condition with module unload in qdisc_create()
# 
diff -Nru a/net/sched/sch_api.c b/net/sched/sch_api.c
--- a/net/sched/sch_api.c       2004-08-17 01:35:50 +02:00
+++ b/net/sched/sch_api.c       2004-08-17 01:35:50 +02:00
@@ -407,6 +407,9 @@
        err = -EINVAL;
        if (ops == NULL)
                goto err_out;
+       err = -EBUSY;
+       if (!try_module_get(ops->owner))
+               goto err_out;
 
        /* ensure that the Qdisc and the private data are 32-byte aligned */
        size = ((sizeof(*sch) + QDISC_ALIGN_CONST) & ~QDISC_ALIGN_CONST);
@@ -415,18 +418,12 @@
        p = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
        err = -ENOBUFS;
        if (!p)
-               goto err_out;
+               goto err_out2;
        memset(p, 0, size);
        sch = (struct Qdisc *)(((unsigned long)p + QDISC_ALIGN_CONST)
                               & ~QDISC_ALIGN_CONST);
        sch->padded = (char *)sch - (char *)p;
 
-       /* Grrr... Resolve race condition with module unload */
-
-       err = -EINVAL;
-       if (ops != qdisc_lookup_ops(kind))
-               goto err_out;
-
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sch->list);
        skb_queue_head_init(&sch->q);
 
@@ -444,7 +441,7 @@
                handle = qdisc_alloc_handle(dev);
                err = -ENOMEM;
                if (handle == 0)
-                       goto err_out;
+                       goto err_out2;
        }
 
        if (handle == TC_H_INGRESS)
@@ -452,10 +449,6 @@
         else
                 sch->handle = handle;
 
-       err = -EBUSY;
-       if (!try_module_get(ops->owner))
-               goto err_out;
-
        /* enqueue is accessed locklessly - make sure it's visible
         * before we set a netdevice's qdisc pointer to sch */
        smp_wmb();
@@ -471,8 +464,8 @@
 #endif
                return sch;
        }
+err_out2:
        module_put(ops->owner);
-
 err_out:
        *errp = err;
        if (p)
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