tuntap: Fix for a race in accessing numqueues
authorDominic Curran <dominic.curran@citrix.com>
Wed, 22 Jan 2014 03:03:23 +0000 (03:03 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:32:56 +0000 (21:32 -0800)
commitfa35864e0bb7f7c13b9c6d6751ddac9b42d4810f
tree50f705ece98607b7a54161554b486d65c426ac2e
parentbdf4351bbc62f3b24151cf19ca6e531b68d8c340
tuntap: Fix for a race in accessing numqueues

A patch for fixing a race between queue selection and changing queues
was introduced in commit 92bb73ea2("tuntap: fix a possible race between
queue selection and changing queues").

The fix was to prevent the driver from re-reading the tun->numqueues
more than once within tun_select_queue() using ACCESS_ONCE().

We have been experiancing 'Divide-by-zero' errors in tun_net_xmit()
since we moved from 3.6 to 3.10, and believe that they come from a
simular source where the value of tun->numqueues changes to zero
between the first and a subsequent read of tun->numqueues.

The fix is a simular use of ACCESS_ONCE(), as well as a multiply
instead of a divide in the if statement.

Signed-off-by: Dominic Curran <dominic.curran@citrix.com>
Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Cc: Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qti.qualcomm.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/tun.c