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| author | Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> | 2013-11-29 06:39:44 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-11-30 18:48:13 +0100 |
| commit | 7f88c6b23afbd31545c676dea77ba9593a1a14bf (patch) | |
| tree | 632026254bc2ca731676e4327381dbe265153f76 /Documentation/local_ops.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsh... (diff) | |
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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>
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