ipv6: fix possible seqlock deadlock in ip6_finish_output2
authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:39:44 +0000 (06:39 +0100)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 04:33:34 +0000 (04:33 +0000)
[ Upstream commit 7f88c6b23afbd31545c676dea77ba9593a1a14bf ]

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>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c

index 97675bf..d3fde7e 100644 (file)
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ static int ip6_finish_output2(struct sk_buff *skb)
                return res;
        }
        rcu_read_unlock();
-       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;
 }