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H A Dteam.c47549650 Fri Oct 03 08:58:34 CDT 2014 Joe Lawrence <Joe.Lawrence@stratus.com> team: avoid race condition in scheduling delayed work

When team_notify_peers and team_mcast_rejoin are called, they both reset
their respective .count_pending atomic variable. Then when the actual
worker function is executed, the variable is atomically decremented.
This pattern introduces a potential race condition where the
.count_pending rolls over and the worker function keeps rescheduling
until .count_pending decrements to zero again:

THREAD 1 THREAD 2

======== ========
team_notify_peers(teamX)
atomic_set count_pending = 1
schedule_delayed_work
team_notify_peers(teamX)
atomic_set count_pending = 1
team_notify_peers_work
atomic_dec_and_test
count_pending = 0
(return)
schedule_delayed_work
team_notify_peers_work
atomic_dec_and_test
count_pending = -1
schedule_delayed_work
(repeat until count_pending = 0)

Instead of assigning a new value to .count_pending, use atomic_add to
tack-on the additional desired worker function invocations.

Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Fixes: fc423ff00df3a19554414ee ("team: add peer notification")
Fixes: 492b200efdd20b8fcfdac87 ("team: add support for sending multicast rejoins")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
47549650 Fri Oct 03 08:58:34 CDT 2014 Joe Lawrence <Joe.Lawrence@stratus.com> team: avoid race condition in scheduling delayed work

When team_notify_peers and team_mcast_rejoin are called, they both reset
their respective .count_pending atomic variable. Then when the actual
worker function is executed, the variable is atomically decremented.
This pattern introduces a potential race condition where the
.count_pending rolls over and the worker function keeps rescheduling
until .count_pending decrements to zero again:

THREAD 1 THREAD 2

======== ========
team_notify_peers(teamX)
atomic_set count_pending = 1
schedule_delayed_work
team_notify_peers(teamX)
atomic_set count_pending = 1
team_notify_peers_work
atomic_dec_and_test
count_pending = 0
(return)
schedule_delayed_work
team_notify_peers_work
atomic_dec_and_test
count_pending = -1
schedule_delayed_work
(repeat until count_pending = 0)

Instead of assigning a new value to .count_pending, use atomic_add to
tack-on the additional desired worker function invocations.

Signed-off-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@stratus.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Fixes: fc423ff00df3a19554414ee ("team: add peer notification")
Fixes: 492b200efdd20b8fcfdac87 ("team: add support for sending multicast rejoins")
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>