[Devel] [PATCH] Ensure that pneigh_lookup is protected with RTNL

Pavel Emelyanov xemul at openvz.org
Mon Oct 15 06:38:57 PDT 2007


The pnigh_lookup is used to lookup proxy entries and to 
create them in case lookup failed. 

However, the "creation" code does not perform the re-lookup
after GFP_KERNEL allocation. This is done because the code
is expected to be protected with the RTNL lock, so add the 
assertion (mainly to address future questions from new network 
developers like me :) ).

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at openvz.org>

---
diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index c52df85..cd3af59 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ struct pneigh_entry * pneigh_lookup(struct neigh_table *tbl, const void *pkey,
 	if (!creat)
 		goto out;
 
+	ASSERT_RTNL();
+
 	n = kmalloc(sizeof(*n) + key_len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!n)
 		goto out;




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