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ipv6: some ipv6 statistic counters failed to disable bh

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After commit c15b1ccadb ("ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify
processing to workqueue") some counters are now updated in process context
and thus need to disable bh before doing so, otherwise deadlocks can
happen on 32-bit archs. Fabio Estevam noticed this while while mounting
a NFS volume on an ARM board.

As a compensation for missing this I looked after the other *_STATS_BH
and found three other calls which need updating:

1) icmp6_send: ip6_fragment -> icmpv6_send -> icmp6_send (error handling)
2) ip6_push_pending_frames: rawv6_sendmsg -> rawv6_push_pending_frames -> ...
   (only in case of icmp protocol with raw sockets in error handling)
3) ping6_v6_sendmsg (error handling)

Fixes: c15b1ccadb ("ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing to workqueue")
Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-03-31 20:14:10 +02:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 44934fac21
commit 43a43b6040
4 changed files with 11 additions and 10 deletions
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net/ipv6/icmp.c
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@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ static void icmp6_send(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 type, u8 code, __u32 info)
np->tclass, NULL, &fl6, (struct rt6_info *)dst,
MSG_DONTWAIT, np->dontfrag);
if (err) {
ICMP6_INC_STATS_BH(net, idev, ICMP6_MIB_OUTERRORS);
ICMP6_INC_STATS(net, idev, ICMP6_MIB_OUTERRORS);
ip6_flush_pending_frames(sk);
} else {
err = icmpv6_push_pending_frames(sk, &fl6, &tmp_hdr,