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net: bridge: Fix locking in br_fdb_find_port()
Callers of br_fdb_find() need to hold the hash lock, which br_fdb_find_port() doesn't do. However, since br_fdb_find_port() is not doing any actual FDB manipulation, the hash lock is not really needed at all. So convert to br_fdb_find_rcu(), surrounded by rcu_read_lock() / _unlock() pair. The device pointer copied from inside the FDB entry is then kept alive by the RTNL lock, which br_fdb_find_port() asserts. Fixes: 4d4fd36 ("net: bridge: Publish bridge accessor functions") Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <[email protected]> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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