[PATCH 3.2 170/185] ipv6: fix possible seqlock deadlock in ip6_finish_output2

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sat Dec 28 2013 - 22:03:49 EST


3.2.54-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 7f88c6b23afbd31545c676dea77ba9593a1a14bf ]

IPv6 stats are 64 bits and thus are protected with a seqlock. By not
disabling bottom-half we could deadlock here if we don't disable bh and
a softirq reentrantly updates the same mib.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 97675bf..d3fde7e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -144,8 +144,8 @@ static int ip6_finish_output2(struct sk_buff *skb)
return res;
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- IP6_INC_STATS_BH(dev_net(dst->dev),
- ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
+ IP6_INC_STATS(dev_net(dst->dev),
+ ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
kfree_skb(skb);
return -EINVAL;
}

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