Commit 9b8adb5e authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by David S. Miller

net: Fix devinet_sysctl_forward

sysctls are unregistered with the rntl_lock held making
it unsafe to unconditionally grab the the rtnl_lock.  Instead
we need to call rtnl_trylock and restart the system call
if we can not grab it.  Otherwise we could deadlock at unregistration
time.
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 5007392d
......@@ -1347,7 +1347,8 @@ static int devinet_sysctl_forward(ctl_table *ctl, int write,
struct net *net = ctl->extra2;
if (valp != &IPV4_DEVCONF_DFLT(net, FORWARDING)) {
rtnl_lock();
if (!rtnl_trylock())
return restart_syscall();
if (valp == &IPV4_DEVCONF_ALL(net, FORWARDING)) {
inet_forward_change(net);
} else if (*valp) {
......
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