From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:06:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: net: TCP early demux cleanup X-Git-Tag: v3.6-rc1~30^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cca32e4bf999a34ac08d959f351f2b30bcd02460;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git net: TCP early demux cleanup early_demux() handlers should be called in RCU context, and as we use skb_dst_set_noref(skb, dst), caller must not exit from RCU context before dst use (skb_dst(skb)) or release (skb_drop(dst)) Therefore, rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs around ->early_demux() are confusing and not needed : Protocol handlers are already in an RCU read lock section. (__netif_receive_skb() does the rcu_read_lock() ) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_input.c b/net/ipv4/ip_input.c index 981ff1e..f1395a6 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_input.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_input.c @@ -325,14 +325,12 @@ static int ip_rcv_finish(struct sk_buff *skb) const struct net_protocol *ipprot; int protocol = iph->protocol; - rcu_read_lock(); ipprot = rcu_dereference(inet_protos[protocol]); if (ipprot && ipprot->early_demux) { ipprot->early_demux(skb); /* must reload iph, skb->head might have changed */ iph = ip_hdr(skb); } - rcu_read_unlock(); } /* diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c index 47975e3..a52d864 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_input.c @@ -52,11 +52,9 @@ int ip6_rcv_finish(struct sk_buff *skb) if (sysctl_ip_early_demux && !skb_dst(skb)) { const struct inet6_protocol *ipprot; - rcu_read_lock(); ipprot = rcu_dereference(inet6_protos[ipv6_hdr(skb)->nexthdr]); if (ipprot && ipprot->early_demux) ipprot->early_demux(skb); - rcu_read_unlock(); } if (!skb_dst(skb)) ip6_route_input(skb);