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Commit 6bd00b85 authored by WANG Cong's avatar WANG Cong Committed by David S. Miller
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act_mirred: fix a race condition on mirred_list

After commit 1ce87720

 ("net: sched: make cls_u32 lockless")
we began to release tc actions in a RCU callback. However,
mirred action relies on RTNL lock to protect the global
mirred_list, therefore we could have a race condition
between RCU callback and netdevice event, which caused
a list corruption as reported by Vinson.

Instead of relying on RTNL lock, introduce a spinlock to
protect this list.

Note, in non-bind case, it is still called with RTNL lock,
therefore should disable BH too.

Reported-by: default avatarVinson Lee <vlee@twopensource.com>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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