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authorstephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>2010-07-27 08:26:30 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-07-28 10:50:55 -0700
commiteeaf61d8891f9c9ed12c1a667e72bf83f0857954 (patch)
treedaeda447800df1349559268d8f6e79c90dcd22dd /net/bridge/br_device.c
parentff847ac2d3e90edd94674c28bade25ae1e6a2e49 (diff)
bridge: add rcu_read_lock on transmit
Long ago, when bridge was converted to RCU, rcu lock was equivalent to having preempt disabled. RCU has changed a lot since then and bridge code was still assuming the since transmit was called with bottom half disabled, it was RCU safe. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_device.c')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_device.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_device.c b/net/bridge/br_device.c
index 753fc4221f3..4cec8051164 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_device.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_device.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include "br_private.h"
-/* net device transmit always called with no BH (preempt_disabled) */
+/* net device transmit always called with BH disabled */
netdev_tx_t br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
{
struct net_bridge *br = netdev_priv(dev);
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ netdev_tx_t br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
skb_reset_mac_header(skb);
skb_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN);
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (is_multicast_ether_addr(dest)) {
if (br_multicast_rcv(br, NULL, skb))
goto out;
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ netdev_tx_t br_dev_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
br_flood_deliver(br, skb);
out:
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}