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Commit 1fef7359 authored by Xie He's avatar Xie He Committed by David S. Miller
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net: hdlc_ppp: Fix issues when mod_timer is called while timer is running

ppp_cp_event is called directly or indirectly by ppp_rx with "ppp->lock"
held. It may call mod_timer to add a new timer. However, at the same time
ppp_timer may be already running and waiting for "ppp->lock". In this
case, there's no need for ppp_timer to continue running and it can just
exit.

If we let ppp_timer continue running, it may call add_timer. This causes
kernel panic because add_timer can't be called with a timer pending.
This patch fixes this problem.

Fixes: e022c2f0

 ("WAN: new synchronous PPP implementation for generic HDLC.")
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9b22fece
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