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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-07-28 03:43:47 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-08-01 00:12:00 -0700
commitd14730b8e9117c9b77aacd391c049b50163e9b61 (patch)
treecfccf8574eb43722d2c1c6829d90305abe18c69f /net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c
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ipv6: use RCU in inet6_csk_xmit()
Use RCU to avoid changing dst_entry refcount in fast path. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
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);