[PATCH 3.12 38/77] netpoll: Fix missing TXQ unlock and and OOPS.

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jan 13 2014 - 19:44:04 EST


3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit aca5f58f9ba803ec8c2e6bcf890db17589e8dfcc ]

The VLAN tag handling code in netpoll_send_skb_on_dev() has two problems.

1) It exits without unlocking the TXQ.

2) It then tries to queue a NULL skb to npinfo->txq.

Reported-by: Ahmed Tamrawi <atamrawi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/netpoll.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -386,8 +386,14 @@ void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netp
!vlan_hw_offload_capable(netif_skb_features(skb),
skb->vlan_proto)) {
skb = __vlan_put_tag(skb, skb->vlan_proto, vlan_tx_tag_get(skb));
- if (unlikely(!skb))
- break;
+ if (unlikely(!skb)) {
+ /* This is actually a packet drop, but we
+ * don't want the code at the end of this
+ * function to try and re-queue a NULL skb.
+ */
+ status = NETDEV_TX_OK;
+ goto unlock_txq;
+ }
skb->vlan_tci = 0;
}

@@ -395,6 +401,7 @@ void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netp
if (status == NETDEV_TX_OK)
txq_trans_update(txq);
}
+ unlock_txq:
__netif_tx_unlock(txq);

if (status == NETDEV_TX_OK)


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