summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/net
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-01-25 00:16:16 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-01-25 00:16:16 +0300
commitc506653d35249bb4738bb139c24362e1ae724bc1 (patch)
tree24fdcd4d25b8e0fd14c4074f3ef3673d3c7f6eb3 /net
parent0a0b7a5f7a043d86a95990d3227cf7e823ae52ac (diff)
downloadlinux-c506653d35249bb4738bb139c24362e1ae724bc1.tar.xz
net: arp_ioctl() must hold RTNL
Commit 941666c2e3e0 "net: RCU conversion of dev_getbyhwaddr() and arp_ioctl()" introduced a regression, reported by Jamie Heilman. "arp -Ds 192.168.2.41 eth0 pub" triggered the ASSERT_RTNL() assert in pneigh_lookup() Removing RTNL requirement from arp_ioctl() was a mistake, just revert that part. Reported-by: Jamie Heilman <jamie@audible.transient.net> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/dev.c3
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/arp.c11
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 8393ec408cd4..1e5077d2cca6 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -749,7 +749,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dev_get_by_index);
* @ha: hardware address
*
* Search for an interface by MAC address. Returns NULL if the device
- * is not found or a pointer to the device. The caller must hold RCU
+ * is not found or a pointer to the device.
+ * The caller must hold RCU or RTNL.
* The returned device has not had its ref count increased
* and the caller must therefore be careful about locking
*
diff --git a/net/ipv4/arp.c b/net/ipv4/arp.c
index 04c8b69fd426..7927589813b5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/arp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/arp.c
@@ -1017,14 +1017,13 @@ static int arp_req_set_proxy(struct net *net, struct net_device *dev, int on)
IPV4_DEVCONF_ALL(net, PROXY_ARP) = on;
return 0;
}
- if (__in_dev_get_rcu(dev)) {
- IN_DEV_CONF_SET(__in_dev_get_rcu(dev), PROXY_ARP, on);
+ if (__in_dev_get_rtnl(dev)) {
+ IN_DEV_CONF_SET(__in_dev_get_rtnl(dev), PROXY_ARP, on);
return 0;
}
return -ENXIO;
}
-/* must be called with rcu_read_lock() */
static int arp_req_set_public(struct net *net, struct arpreq *r,
struct net_device *dev)
{
@@ -1233,10 +1232,10 @@ int arp_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
if (!(r.arp_flags & ATF_NETMASK))
((struct sockaddr_in *)&r.arp_netmask)->sin_addr.s_addr =
htonl(0xFFFFFFFFUL);
- rcu_read_lock();
+ rtnl_lock();
if (r.arp_dev[0]) {
err = -ENODEV;
- dev = dev_get_by_name_rcu(net, r.arp_dev);
+ dev = __dev_get_by_name(net, r.arp_dev);
if (dev == NULL)
goto out;
@@ -1263,7 +1262,7 @@ int arp_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
break;
}
out:
- rcu_read_unlock();
+ rtnl_unlock();
if (cmd == SIOCGARP && !err && copy_to_user(arg, &r, sizeof(r)))
err = -EFAULT;
return err;