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authorsantosh.shilimkar@oracle.com <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>2016-04-14 10:43:27 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-05-02 21:19:49 -0700
commit804605eae410ef1d1f904706eaf50400c897434b (patch)
tree1886deee996d7fa22e4c6a19cabf4f043e2ed873 /kernel/sysctl_binary.c
parentb9baa0aa66cef9e26b15372d6c56106a4f3b8439 (diff)
RDS: Fix the atomicity for congestion map update
commit e47db94e10447fc467777a40302f2b393e9af2fa upstream. Two different threads with different rds sockets may be in rds_recv_rcvbuf_delta() via receive path. If their ports both map to the same word in the congestion map, then using non-atomic ops to update it could cause the map to be incorrect. Lets use atomics to avoid such an issue. Full credit to Wengang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com> for finding the issue, analysing it and also pointing out to offending code with spin lock based fix. Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@leon.nu> Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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