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

net/mlx5e: Prevent possible races in VXLAN control flow

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: net-mlx5e-prevent-possible-races-in-vxlan-control-flow.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Sun Dec 31 11:12:48 CET 2017

From: Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 09:57:43 +0200 Subject: net/mlx5e: Prevent possible races in VXLAN control flow

From: Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com

[ Upstream commit 0c1cc8b2215f5122ca614b5adca60346018758c3 ]

When calling add/remove VXLAN port, a lock must be held in order to prevent race scenarios when more than one add/remove happens at the same time. Fix by holding our state_lock (mutex) as done by all other parts of the driver. Note that the spinlock protecting the radix-tree is still needed in order to synchronize radix-tree access from softirq context.

Fixes: b3f63c3d5e2c ("net/mlx5e: Add netdev support for VXLAN tunneling") Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman galp@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed saeedm@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vxlan.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vxlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/vxlan.c @@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ static void mlx5e_vxlan_add_port(struct struct mlx5e_vxlan *vxlan; int err;

+ mutex_lock(&priv->state_lock); vxlan = mlx5e_vxlan_lookup_port(priv, port); if (vxlan) { atomic_inc(&vxlan->refcount); @@ -117,6 +118,7 @@ err_free: err_delete_port: mlx5e_vxlan_core_del_port_cmd(priv->mdev, port); free_work: + mutex_unlock(&priv->state_lock); kfree(vxlan_work); }

@@ -130,6 +132,7 @@ static void mlx5e_vxlan_del_port(struct struct mlx5e_vxlan *vxlan; bool remove = false;

+ mutex_lock(&priv->state_lock); spin_lock_bh(&vxlan_db->lock); vxlan = radix_tree_lookup(&vxlan_db->tree, port); if (!vxlan) @@ -147,6 +150,7 @@ out_unlock: mlx5e_vxlan_core_del_port_cmd(priv->mdev, port); kfree(vxlan); } + mutex_unlock(&priv->state_lock); kfree(vxlan_work); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from galp@mellanox.com are

queue-4.14/net-mlx5e-fix-possible-deadlock-of-vxlan-lock.patch queue-4.14/net-mlx5e-prevent-possible-races-in-vxlan-control-flow.patch queue-4.14/net-mlx5e-add-refcount-to-vxlan-structure.patch queue-4.14/net-mlx5e-fix-features-check-of-ipv6-traffic.patch