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Message-ID: <20131129053944.GH24171@order.stressinduktion.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:39:44 +0100
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, jongman.heo@...sung.com,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] 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@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 59df872..4acdb63 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;
}
--
1.8.3.1
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