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authorTaehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>2021-03-25 16:16:55 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2021-03-26 15:14:56 -0700
commit88e2ca3080947fe22eb520c1f8231e79a105d011 (patch)
tree546cc57e9db1e1f5c09b951694a4213d1d725515 /net/ipv6/addrconf.c
parent4b200e398953c237c86d32bf26d4cb2a96556a6f (diff)
downloadlinux-88e2ca3080947fe22eb520c1f8231e79a105d011.tar.gz
mld: convert ifmcaddr6 to RCU
The ifmcaddr6 has been protected by inet6_dev->lock(rwlock) so that the critical section is atomic context. In order to switch this context, changing locking is needed. The ifmcaddr6 actually already protected by RTNL So if it's converted to use RCU, its control path context can be switched to sleepable. Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/addrconf.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/addrconf.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index f2337fb756ac7..b502f78d5091f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -5107,17 +5107,20 @@ next:
break;
}
case MULTICAST_ADDR:
+ read_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);
fillargs->event = RTM_GETMULTICAST;
/* multicast address */
- for (ifmca = idev->mc_list; ifmca;
- ifmca = ifmca->next, ip_idx++) {
+ for (ifmca = rcu_dereference(idev->mc_list);
+ ifmca;
+ ifmca = rcu_dereference(ifmca->next), ip_idx++) {
if (ip_idx < s_ip_idx)
continue;
err = inet6_fill_ifmcaddr(skb, ifmca, fillargs);
if (err < 0)
break;
}
+ read_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
break;
case ANYCAST_ADDR:
fillargs->event = RTM_GETANYCAST;
@@ -6093,10 +6096,8 @@ static void __ipv6_ifa_notify(int event, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
static void ipv6_ifa_notify(int event, struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
{
- rcu_read_lock_bh();
if (likely(ifp->idev->dead == 0))
__ipv6_ifa_notify(event, ifp);
- rcu_read_unlock_bh();
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL