[PATCH 4.9 012/119] net: bridge: start hello timer only if device is up

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Jun 12 2017 - 11:33:21 EST


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

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From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


[ Upstream commit aeb073241fe7a2b932e04e20c60e47718332877f ]

When the transition of NO_STP -> KERNEL_STP was fixed by always calling
mod_timer in br_stp_start, it introduced a new regression which causes
the timer to be armed even when the bridge is down, and since we stop
the timers in its ndo_stop() function, they never get disabled if the
device is destroyed before it's upped.

To reproduce:
$ while :; do ip l add br0 type bridge hello_time 100; brctl stp br0 on;
ip l del br0; done;

CC: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ivan Vecera <cera@xxxxxxx>
CC: Sebastian Ott <sebott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 6d18c732b95c ("bridge: start hello_timer when enabling KERNEL_STP in br_stp_start")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bridge/br_stp_if.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_if.c
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ static void br_stp_start(struct net_brid
br_debug(br, "using kernel STP\n");

/* To start timers on any ports left in blocking */
- mod_timer(&br->hello_timer, jiffies + br->hello_time);
+ if (br->dev->flags & IFF_UP)
+ mod_timer(&br->hello_timer, jiffies + br->hello_time);
br_port_state_selection(br);
}