From: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
To: 3chas3@gmail.com, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org
Cc: linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, baijiaju1990@gmail.com,
Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v3] atm/fore200e: Fix possible data race in fore200e_open()
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:06:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251120120657.2462194-1-hanguidong02@gmail.com> (raw)
Protect access to fore200e->available_cell_rate with rate_mtx lock in the
error handling path of fore200e_open() to prevent a data race.
The field fore200e->available_cell_rate is a shared resource used to track
available bandwidth. It is concurrently accessed by fore200e_open(),
fore200e_close(), and fore200e_change_qos().
In fore200e_open(), the lock rate_mtx is correctly held when subtracting
vcc->qos.txtp.max_pcr from available_cell_rate to reserve bandwidth.
However, if the subsequent call to fore200e_activate_vcin() fails, the
function restores the reserved bandwidth by adding back to
available_cell_rate without holding the lock.
This introduces a race condition because available_cell_rate is a global
device resource shared across all VCCs. If the error path in
fore200e_open() executes concurrently with operations like
fore200e_close() or fore200e_change_qos() on other VCCs, a
read-modify-write race occurs.
Specifically, the error path reads the rate without the lock. If another
CPU acquires the lock and modifies the rate (e.g., releasing bandwidth in
fore200e_close()) between this read and the subsequent write, the error
path will overwrite the concurrent update with a stale value. This results
in incorrect bandwidth accounting.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <hanguidong02@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
---
v3:
* Expanded the commit message to describe the specific call paths causing
the race, as suggested by Jakub Kicinski and Paolo Abeni.
v2:
* Added a description of the data race hazard in fore200e_open(), as
suggested by Jakub Kicinski and Simon Horman.
---
drivers/atm/fore200e.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
index 4fea1149e003..f62e38571440 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c
@@ -1374,7 +1374,9 @@ fore200e_open(struct atm_vcc *vcc)
vcc->dev_data = NULL;
+ mutex_lock(&fore200e->rate_mtx);
fore200e->available_cell_rate += vcc->qos.txtp.max_pcr;
+ mutex_unlock(&fore200e->rate_mtx);
kfree(fore200e_vcc);
return -EINVAL;
--
2.34.1
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