igb: fix race accessing page->_count
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:48:15 +0000 (04:48 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:37:28 +0000 (15:37 -0400)
commit00cd5adb0313f540aa58672d14e764d164586a43
treebdeeb422a5a8627d6da8a42499aeec2340cef437
parent42b0270b40e2ad692ef59e28233202ee6f293e1e
igb: fix race accessing page->_count

This is illegal to use atomic_set(&page->_count, 2) even if we 'own'
the page. Other entities in the kernel need to use get_page_unless_zero()
to get a reference to the page before testing page properties, so we could
loose a refcount increment.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c