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authorHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>2014-03-31 20:14:10 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-03-31 16:38:12 -0400
commit43a43b6040165f7b40b5b489fe61a4cb7f8c4980 (patch)
treeb4af50e6130041a6e72c5e97aa8f495e8475b969 /net/ipv6/ping.c
parent44934fac2171d5b0ed1838293f2e2db7508ad628 (diff)
downloadlinux-43a43b6040165f7b40b5b489fe61a4cb7f8c4980.tar.gz
ipv6: some ipv6 statistic counters failed to disable bh
After commit c15b1ccadb323ea ("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: c15b1ccadb323ea ("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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ping.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ping.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ping.c b/net/ipv6/ping.c
index 587bbdcb22b4..bda74291c3e0 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ping.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ping.c
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ int ping_v6_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 			      MSG_DONTWAIT, np->dontfrag);
 
 	if (err) {
-		ICMP6_INC_STATS_BH(sock_net(sk), rt->rt6i_idev,
-				   ICMP6_MIB_OUTERRORS);
+		ICMP6_INC_STATS(sock_net(sk), rt->rt6i_idev,
+				ICMP6_MIB_OUTERRORS);
 		ip6_flush_pending_frames(sk);
 	} else {
 		err = icmpv6_push_pending_frames(sk, &fl6,