[ovs-dev] [PATCH net-next v3 09/10] net: openvswitch: don't unlock mutex when changing the user_features fails

xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com
Fri Oct 11 14:00:46 UTC 2019


From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>

Unlocking of a not locked mutex is not allowed.
Other kernel thread may be in critical section while
we unlock it because of setting user_feature fail.

Fixes: 95a7233c4 ("net: openvswitch: Set OvS recirc_id from tc chain index")
Cc: Paul Blakey <paulb at mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue at gmail.com>
---
 net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 9fea7e1..aeb76e4 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -1657,6 +1657,7 @@ static int ovs_dp_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 				ovs_dp_reset_user_features(skb, info);
 		}
 
+		ovs_unlock();
 		goto err_destroy_meters;
 	}
 
@@ -1673,7 +1674,6 @@ static int ovs_dp_cmd_new(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 	return 0;
 
 err_destroy_meters:
-	ovs_unlock();
 	ovs_meters_exit(dp);
 err_destroy_ports_array:
 	kfree(dp->ports);
-- 
1.8.3.1



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