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authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>2013-11-29 09:39:44 +0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-11-30 21:48:13 +0400
commit7f88c6b23afbd31545c676dea77ba9593a1a14bf (patch)
tree632026254bc2ca731676e4327381dbe265153f76 /net
parent696701b89d44c636c800a9b98f4a6a8015a6e1c4 (diff)
downloadlinux-7f88c6b23afbd31545c676dea77ba9593a1a14bf.tar.xz
ipv6: fix possible seqlock deadlock in ip6_finish_output2
IPv6 stats are 64 bits and thus are protected with a seqlock. By not disabling bottom-half we could deadlock here if we don't disable bh and a softirq reentrantly updates the same mib. Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_output.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 59df872e2f4d..4acdb63495db 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ static int ip6_finish_output2(struct sk_buff *skb)
}
rcu_read_unlock_bh();
- IP6_INC_STATS_BH(dev_net(dst->dev),
- ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
+ IP6_INC_STATS(dev_net(dst->dev),
+ ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
kfree_skb(skb);
return -EINVAL;
}