Patch "bridge: netlink: fix slave_changelink/br_setport race conditions" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

bridge: netlink: fix slave_changelink/br_setport race conditions

to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
bridge-netlink-fix-slave_changelink-br_setport-race-conditions.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 13:03:40 +0200
Subject: bridge: netlink: fix slave_changelink/br_setport race conditions

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 963ad94853000ab100f5ff19eea80095660d41b4 ]

Since slave_changelink support was added there have been a few race conditions when using br_setport() since some of the port functions it uses require the bridge lock. It is very easy to trigger a lockup due to some internal spin_lock() usage without bh disabled, also it's possible to get the bridge into an inconsistent state.

---
 net/bridge/br_netlink.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -711,9 +711,17 @@ static int br_port_slave_changelink(stru
 				    struct nlattr *tb[],
 				    struct nlattr *data[])
 {
+	struct net_bridge *br = netdev_priv(brdev);
+	int ret;
+
 	if (!data)
 		return 0;
-	return br_setport(br_port_get_rtnl(dev), data);
+
+	spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
+	ret = br_setport(br_port_get_rtnl(dev), data);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int br_port_fill_slave_info(struct sk_buff *skb,

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.1/bonding-correct-the-mac-address-for-follow-fail_over_mac-policy.patch queue-4.1/bridge-netlink-fix-slave_changelink-br_setport-race-conditions.patch queue-4.1/bridge-mdb-fix-double-add-notification.patch queue-4.1/bridge-netlink-account-for-the-ifla_brport_proxyarp-attribute-size-and-policy.patch queue-4.1/bonding-fix-destruction-of-bond-with-devices-different-from-arphrd_ether.patch queue-4.1/bridge-netlink-account-for-the-ifla_brport_proxyarp_wifi-attribute-size-and-policy.patch