netdev - [PATCH net 13/16] ipv6: use RCU protection in ip6_default

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Message-ID: <20250131171334.1172661-14-edumazet@google.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 17:13:31 +0000
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, 
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>, 
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, eric.dumazet@...il.com, 
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 13/16] ipv6: use RCU protection in ip6_default_advmss()

ip6_default_advmss() needs rcu protection to make
sure the net structure it reads does not disappear.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 net/ipv6/route.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 78362822b9070df138a0724dc76003b63026f9e2..ef2d23a1e3d532f5db37ca94ca482c5522dddffc 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -3196,13 +3196,18 @@ static unsigned int ip6_default_advmss(const struct dst_entry *dst)
 {
 	struct net_device *dev = dst->dev;
 	unsigned int mtu = dst_mtu(dst);
-	struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
+	struct net *net;
 
 	mtu -= sizeof(struct ipv6hdr) + sizeof(struct tcphdr);
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	net = dev_net_rcu(dev);
 	if (mtu < net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_min_advmss)
 		mtu = net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_min_advmss;
 
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+
 	/*
 	 * Maximal non-jumbo IPv6 payload is IPV6_MAXPLEN and
 	 * corresponding MSS is IPV6_MAXPLEN - tcp_header_size.
-- 
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