From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 03:43:47 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ipv6: use RCU in inet6_csk_xmit() X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~18194^2~599 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d14730b8e9117c9b77aacd391c049b50163e9b61;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git ipv6: use RCU in inet6_csk_xmit() Use RCU to avoid changing dst_entry refcount in fast path. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c b/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c index 8a58e8cf6646..2916200f90c1 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c +++ b/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ int inet6_csk_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl_unused) struct flowi6 fl6; struct dst_entry *dst; struct in6_addr *final_p, final; + int res; memset(&fl6, 0, sizeof(fl6)); fl6.flowi6_proto = sk->sk_protocol; @@ -241,12 +242,14 @@ int inet6_csk_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi *fl_unused) __inet6_csk_dst_store(sk, dst, NULL, NULL); } - skb_dst_set(skb, dst_clone(dst)); + rcu_read_lock(); + skb_dst_set_noref(skb, dst); /* Restore final destination back after routing done */ ipv6_addr_copy(&fl6.daddr, &np->daddr); - return ip6_xmit(sk, skb, &fl6, np->opt); + res = ip6_xmit(sk, skb, &fl6, np->opt); + rcu_read_unlock(); + return res; } - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inet6_csk_xmit);