[PATCH 5/7] netpoll: take rcu_read_lock_bh() in netpoll_rx()

Cong Wang
2012-07-27T15:39:29Z

In __netpoll_rx(), it dereferences ->npinfo without rcu_dereference_bh(),
this patch fixes it by using the 'npinfo' passed from netpoll_rx()
where it is already dereferenced with rcu_dereference_bh().

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
---
include/linux/netpoll.h | 4 ++--
net/core/netpoll.c | 3 +--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
index 5011d74..36f938c 100644
--- a/include/linux/netpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ void netpoll_set_trap(int trap);
void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np);
void __netpoll_free_rcu(struct netpoll *np);
void netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np);
-int __netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb);
+int __netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netpoll_info *npinfo);
void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb,
struct net_device *dev);
static inline void netpoll_send_skb(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb)
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static inline bool netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)

spin_lock(&npinfo->rx_lock);
/* check rx_flags again with the lock held */
- if (npinfo->rx_flags && __netpoll_rx(skb))
+ if (npinfo->rx_flags && __netpoll_rx(skb, npinfo))
ret = true;
spin_unlock(&npinfo->rx_lock);

diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index 19dddef..3965fdb 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -543,13 +543,12 @@ static void arp_reply(struct sk_buff *skb)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
}

-int __netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
+int __netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netpoll_info *npinfo)
{
int proto, len, ulen;
int hits = 0;
const struct iphdr *iph;
struct udphdr *uh;
- struct netpoll_info *npinfo = skb->dev->npinfo;
struct netpoll *np, *tmp;

if (list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np))
--
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