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| author | Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> | 2013-10-21 06:17:15 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-10-22 00:56:22 +0200 |
| commit | c2f17e827b419918c856131f592df9521e1a38e3 (patch) | |
| tree | c98a464c94f28df3384615b235f62fc45a9c78a7 /net | |
| parent | Merge branch 'rt6i_gateway' (diff) | |
| download | linux-c2f17e827b419918c856131f592df9521e1a38e3.tar.xz linux-c2f17e827b419918c856131f592df9521e1a38e3.zip | |
ipv6: probe routes asynchronous in rt6_probe
Routes need to be probed asynchronous otherwise the call stack gets
exhausted when the kernel attemps to deliver another skb inline, like
e.g. xt_TEE does, and we probe at the same time.
We update neigh->updated still at once, otherwise we would send to
many probes.
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/route.c | 38 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index c1ee3813e1ae..f54e3a101098 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -476,6 +476,24 @@ out: } #ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_ROUTER_PREF +struct __rt6_probe_work { + struct work_struct work; + struct in6_addr target; + struct net_device *dev; +}; + +static void rt6_probe_deferred(struct work_struct *w) +{ + struct in6_addr mcaddr; + struct __rt6_probe_work *work = + container_of(w, struct __rt6_probe_work, work); + + addrconf_addr_solict_mult(&work->target, &mcaddr); + ndisc_send_ns(work->dev, NULL, &work->target, &mcaddr, NULL); + dev_put(work->dev); + kfree(w); +} + static void rt6_probe(struct rt6_info *rt) { struct neighbour *neigh; @@ -499,17 +517,23 @@ static void rt6_probe(struct rt6_info *rt) if (!neigh || time_after(jiffies, neigh->updated + rt->rt6i_idev->cnf.rtr_probe_interval)) { - struct in6_addr mcaddr; - struct in6_addr *target; + struct __rt6_probe_work *work; + + work = kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC); - if (neigh) { + if (neigh && work) neigh->updated = jiffies; + + if (neigh) write_unlock(&neigh->lock); - } - target = (struct in6_addr *)&rt->rt6i_gateway; - addrconf_addr_solict_mult(target, &mcaddr); - ndisc_send_ns(rt->dst.dev, NULL, target, &mcaddr, NULL); + if (work) { + INIT_WORK(&work->work, rt6_probe_deferred); + work->target = rt->rt6i_gateway; + dev_hold(rt->dst.dev); + work->dev = rt->dst.dev; + schedule_work(&work->work); + } } else { out: write_unlock(&neigh->lock); |