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Commit 5ffe57da authored by Cong Wang's avatar Cong Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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act_ife: fix a potential deadlock



use_all_metadata() acquires read_lock(&ife_mod_lock), then calls
add_metainfo() which calls find_ife_oplist() which acquires the same
lock again. Deadlock!

Introduce __add_metainfo() which accepts struct tcf_meta_ops *ops
as an additional parameter and let its callers to decide how
to find it. For use_all_metadata(), it already has ops, no
need to find it again, just call __add_metainfo() directly.

And, as ife_mod_lock is only needed for find_ife_oplist(),
this means we can make non-atomic allocation for populate_metalist()
now.

Fixes: 817e9f2c ("act_ife: acquire ife_mod_lock before reading ifeoplist")
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 4e407ff5
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