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| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/route.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/route.c b/net/ipv4/route.c index a6d7c584f53..8d23cc7efba 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -1109,7 +1109,12 @@ restart: printk("\n"); } #endif - rt_hash_table[hash].chain = rt; + /* + * Since lookup is lockfree, we must make sure + * previous writes to rt are comitted to memory + * before making rt visible to other CPUS. + */ + rcu_assign_pointer(rt_hash_table[hash].chain, rt); spin_unlock_bh(rt_hash_lock_addr(hash)); *rp = rt; return 0; |