fib: fib_result_assign() should not change fib refcounts
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Thu, 4 Nov 2010 01:21:39 +0000 (01:21 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 4 Nov 2010 19:05:32 +0000 (12:05 -0700)
After commit ebc0ffae5 (RCU conversion of fib_lookup()),
fib_result_assign()  should not change fib refcounts anymore.

Thanks to Michael who did the bisection and bug report.

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Tested-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/fib_lookup.h

index a29edf2219c8437b811bcce27fdd2cd9fca0a9fc..c079cc0ec6515fe212aecd27303c2b5671a5d60d 100644 (file)
@@ -47,11 +47,8 @@ extern int fib_detect_death(struct fib_info *fi, int order,
 static inline void fib_result_assign(struct fib_result *res,
                                     struct fib_info *fi)
 {
-       if (res->fi != NULL)
-               fib_info_put(res->fi);
+       /* we used to play games with refcounts, but we now use RCU */
        res->fi = fi;
-       if (fi != NULL)
-               atomic_inc(&fi->fib_clntref);
 }
 
 #endif /* _FIB_LOOKUP_H */