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author | Andy Grover | 2009-10-30 08:51:54 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller | 2009-10-30 15:06:38 -0700 |
commit | 86357b19bcabd9355937f3fb84f90ba9fe76a5d3 (patch) | |
tree | ec9dfe857ce9d5c807b7cce4cd0c831c8e1fcdee /scripts | |
parent | 244546f0d3101c5441f5b14cfe8a79d62679eaea (diff) |
RDS: Fix potential race around rds_i[bw]_allocation
"At rds_ib_recv_refill_one(), it first executes atomic_read(&rds_ib_allocation)
for if-condition checking,
and then executes atomic_inc(&rds_ib_allocation) if the condition was
not satisfied.
However, if any other code which updates rds_ib_allocation executes
between these two atomic operation executions,
it seems that it may result race condition. (especially when
rds_ib_allocation + 1 == rds_ib_sysctl_max_recv_allocation)"
This patch fixes this by using atomic_inc_unless to eliminate the
possibility of allocating more than rds_ib_sysctl_max_recv_allocation
and then decrementing the count if the allocation fails. It also
makes an identical change to the iwarp transport.
Reported-by: Shin Hong <hongshin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <andy.grover@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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