When the DSA_NOTIFIER_TAG_PROTO returns an error, the user space process
which initiated the protocol change exits the kernel processing while
still holding the rtnl_mutex. So any other process attempting to lock
the rtnl_mutex would deadlock after such event.
The error handling of DSA_NOTIFIER_TAG_PROTO was inadvertently changed
by the blamed commit, introducing this regression. We must still call
rtnl_unlock(), and we must still call DSA_NOTIFIER_TAG_PROTO for the old
protocol. The latter is due to the limiting design of notifier chains
for cross-chip operations, which don't have a built-in error recovery
mechanism - we should look into using notifier_call_chain_robust for that.
Fixes:
dc452a471dba ("net: dsa: introduce tagger-owned storage for private and shared data")
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220228141715.146485-1-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
info.tag_ops = tag_ops;
err = dsa_tree_notify(dst, DSA_NOTIFIER_TAG_PROTO, &info);
if (err)
- return err;
+ goto out_unlock;
err = dsa_tree_bind_tag_proto(dst, tag_ops);
if (err)