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| author | Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> | 2014-12-06 19:19:42 +0100 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-12-09 16:08:17 -0500 |
| commit | dbfc4fb7d578d4f224faa6b60deb40804dfdc1b1 (patch) | |
| tree | f474094df71aa758eab9799a7809f6f07712071e /net/core | |
| parent | c19be735c99e221e00157c6db475fe007c056638 (diff) | |
dst: no need to take reference on DST_NOCACHE dsts
Since commit f8864972126899 ("ipv4: fix dst race in sk_dst_get()")
DST_NOCACHE dst_entries get freed by RCU. So there is no need to get a
reference on them when we are in rcu protected sections.
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Reviewed-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dst.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c index a028409ee438..e956ce6d1378 100644 --- a/net/core/dst.c +++ b/net/core/dst.c @@ -327,30 +327,6 @@ void __dst_destroy_metrics_generic(struct dst_entry *dst, unsigned long old) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(__dst_destroy_metrics_generic); -/** - * __skb_dst_set_noref - sets skb dst, without a reference - * @skb: buffer - * @dst: dst entry - * @force: if force is set, use noref version even for DST_NOCACHE entries - * - * Sets skb dst, assuming a reference was not taken on dst - * skb_dst_drop() should not dst_release() this dst - */ -void __skb_dst_set_noref(struct sk_buff *skb, struct dst_entry *dst, bool force) -{ - WARN_ON(!rcu_read_lock_held() && !rcu_read_lock_bh_held()); - /* If dst not in cache, we must take a reference, because - * dst_release() will destroy dst as soon as its refcount becomes zero - */ - if (unlikely((dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE) && !force)) { - dst_hold(dst); - skb_dst_set(skb, dst); - } else { - skb->_skb_refdst = (unsigned long)dst | SKB_DST_NOREF; - } -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL(__skb_dst_set_noref); - /* Dirty hack. We did it in 2.2 (in __dst_free), * we have _very_ good reasons not to repeat * this mistake in 2.3, but we have no choice |