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| author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2008-10-17 01:18:29 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-10-17 01:18:29 +0400 |
| commit | 00269b54edbf25f3bb0dccb558ae23a6fc77ed86 (patch) | |
| tree | 63eb993fc8c463c5f6d023961b61b9dbaccd82cc /net/ipv4 | |
| parent | dc976c09da4e13b2b3fda23cca9d0682d1de7213 (diff) | |
| download | linux-00269b54edbf25f3bb0dccb558ae23a6fc77ed86.tar.xz | |
ipv4: Add a missing rcu_assign_pointer() in routing cache.
rt_intern_hash() is doing an update of a RCU guarded hash chain
without using rcu_assign_pointer() or equivalent barrier.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/route.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c index a6d7c584f53b..8d23cc7efbad 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -1109,7 +1109,12 @@ restart: printk("\n"); } #endif - rt_hash_table[hash].chain = rt; + /* + * Since lookup is lockfree, we must make sure + * previous writes to rt are comitted to memory + * before making rt visible to other CPUS. + */ + rcu_assign_pointer(rt_hash_table[hash].chain, rt); spin_unlock_bh(rt_hash_lock_addr(hash)); *rp = rt; return 0; |