Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 29 Nov 2013 06:39:44 +0100 | From | Hannes Frederic Sowa <> | Subject | [PATCH] ipv6: fix possible seqlock deadlock in ip6_finish_output2 |
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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> --- 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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