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authorJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>2009-06-30 12:47:19 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-06-30 12:48:38 -0700
commit008440e3ad4b72f5048d1b1f6f5ed894fdc5ad08 (patch)
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ipv4: Fix fib_trie rebalancing, part 3
Alas current delaying of freeing old tnodes by RCU in trie_rebalance is still not enough because we can free a top tnode before updating a t->trie pointer. Reported-by: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl> Tested-by: Pawel Staszewski <pstaszewski@itcare.pl> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/fib_trie.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
index 012cf5a68581..00a54b246dfe 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/fib_trie.c
@@ -1021,6 +1021,9 @@ static void trie_rebalance(struct trie *t, struct tnode *tn)
(struct node *)tn, wasfull);
tp = node_parent((struct node *) tn);
+ if (!tp)
+ rcu_assign_pointer(t->trie, (struct node *)tn);
+
tnode_free_flush();
if (!tp)
break;