[PATCH 2/2] net/ibm/emac: add mutex to 'set multicast list'

From: Ivan Mikhaylov
Date: Wed Sep 14 2016 - 12:08:08 EST


for preventing race conditions within ioctl calls.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <ivan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
index 2dfc603..7af09cb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c
@@ -977,7 +977,10 @@ static void emac_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *ndev)
dev->mcast_pending = 1;
return;
}
+
+ mutex_lock(&dev->link_lock);
__emac_set_multicast_list(dev);
+ mutex_unlock(&dev->link_lock);
}

static int emac_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, void *sa)
--
2.7.4 (Apple Git-66)