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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-09-23 23:46:03 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-09-27 04:04:07 +0200
commit83180af0b0ea166adf8249f4513beb7355f9b4c9 (patch)
tree4e2606d19e0e5be3e1fc1851a0294f163bfa8780 /net/ipv4/route.c
parentrps: allocate rx queues in register_netdevice only (diff)
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net: fix rcu use in ip_route_output_slow
__in_dev_get_rtnl(dev_out) is called while RTNL is not held, thus triggers a lockdep fault. At this point, we only perform a raw test of dev_out->ip_ptr being NULL, we dont need to make sure ip_ptr cant changed right after. We can use rcu_dereference_raw() for this. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/route.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index ae1d4a41f1c6..98beda47bc99 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -2579,7 +2579,7 @@ static int ip_route_output_slow(struct net *net, struct rtable **rp,
goto out;
/* RACE: Check return value of inet_select_addr instead. */
- if (__in_dev_get_rtnl(dev_out) == NULL) {
+ if (rcu_dereference_raw(dev_out->ip_ptr) == NULL) {
dev_put(dev_out);
goto out; /* Wrong error code */
}