[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next] bonding: don't need RTNL for ipsec helpers

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Jul 8 23:09:25 UTC 2020


From: Jarod Wilson <jarod at redhat.com>
Date: Wed,  8 Jul 2020 18:58:49 -0400

> The bond_ipsec_* helpers don't need RTNL, and can potentially get called
> without it being held, so switch from rtnl_dereference() to
> rcu_dereference() to access bond struct data.
> 
> Lightly tested with xfrm bonding, no problems found, should address the
> syzkaller bug referenced below.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+582c98032903dcc04816 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod at redhat.com>

Applied, thank you.


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