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Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 15ac064b5562..2a352e668d10 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -4210,7 +4210,10 @@ static int __dev_queue_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *sb_dev) if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) { int cpu = smp_processor_id(); /* ok because BHs are off */ - if (txq->xmit_lock_owner != cpu) { + /* Other cpus might concurrently change txq->xmit_lock_owner + * to -1 or to their cpu id, but not to our id. + */ + if (READ_ONCE(txq->xmit_lock_owner) != cpu) { if (dev_xmit_recursion()) goto recursion_alert; |