From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, devel@openvz.org
Subject: [PATCH] Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:38:57 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47136D71.4000108@openvz.org> (raw)
The pnigh_lookup is used to lookup proxy entries and to
create them in case lookup failed.
However, the "creation" code does not perform the re-lookup
after GFP_KERNEL allocation. This is done because the code
is expected to be protected with the RTNL lock, so add the
assertion (mainly to address future questions from new network
developers like me :) ).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
---
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index c52df85..cd3af59 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ struct pneigh_entry * pneigh_lookup(struct neigh_table *tbl, const void *pkey,
if (!creat)
goto out;
+ ASSERT_RTNL();
+
n = kmalloc(sizeof(*n) + key_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!n)
goto out;
next reply other threads:[~2007-10-15 13:41 UTC|newest]
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2007-10-15 13:38 Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2007-10-15 19:54 ` [PATCH] Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL David Miller
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