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author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2008-10-16 21:18:29 (GMT) |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-10-16 21:18:29 (GMT) |
commit | 00269b54edbf25f3bb0dccb558ae23a6fc77ed86 (patch) | |
tree | 63eb993fc8c463c5f6d023961b61b9dbaccd82cc | |
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>
-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 a6d7c58..8d23cc7 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; |