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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2009-11-01 19:31:03 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-11-01 23:55:10 -0800
commit685c7944055b9de51ff509719070afae92b3dbe1 (patch)
tree5aeb11059fbfd1d8dd70953d1d5f93501f246121 /net/ipv4/icmp.c
parentc148fc2e30c988f7e3ac91738b2c03f1cef44849 (diff)
icmp: icmp_send() can avoid a dev_put()
We can avoid touching device refcount in icmp_send(), using dev_get_by_index_rcu() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/icmp.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/icmp.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
index 84adb5754c96..fe11f60ce41b 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c
@@ -501,15 +501,16 @@ void icmp_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, int type, int code, __be32 info)
if (!(rt->rt_flags & RTCF_LOCAL)) {
struct net_device *dev = NULL;
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (rt->fl.iif &&
net->ipv4.sysctl_icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr)
- dev = dev_get_by_index(net, rt->fl.iif);
+ dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, rt->fl.iif);
- if (dev) {
+ if (dev)
saddr = inet_select_addr(dev, 0, RT_SCOPE_LINK);
- dev_put(dev);
- } else
+ else
saddr = 0;
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
tos = icmp_pointers[type].error ? ((iph->tos & IPTOS_TOS_MASK) |