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-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/route.c14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c
index fa829f31a3f5..b73f540fa19b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
@@ -491,18 +491,16 @@ u32 ip_idents_reserve(u32 hash, int segs)
 	atomic_t *p_id = ip_idents + hash % IP_IDENTS_SZ;
 	u32 old = READ_ONCE(*p_tstamp);
 	u32 now = (u32)jiffies;
-	u32 new, delta = 0;
+	u32 delta = 0;
 
 	if (old != now && cmpxchg(p_tstamp, old, now) == old)
 		delta = prandom_u32_max(now - old);
 
-	/* Do not use atomic_add_return() as it makes UBSAN unhappy */
-	do {
-		old = (u32)atomic_read(p_id);
-		new = old + delta + segs;
-	} while (atomic_cmpxchg(p_id, old, new) != old);
-
-	return new - segs;
+	/* If UBSAN reports an error there, please make sure your compiler
+	 * supports -fno-strict-overflow before reporting it that was a bug
+	 * in UBSAN, and it has been fixed in GCC-8.
+	 */
+	return atomic_add_return(segs + delta, p_id) - segs;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip_idents_reserve);