From 69df9d5993bd7dd7499ad0e98fe824147fbe5667 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:59:47 -0800 Subject: ip_frag: dont touch device refcount When sending fragmentation expiration ICMP V4/V6 messages, we can avoid touching device refcount, thanks to RCU Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv4') diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c index 575f9bd51cc..b007f8af6e1 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_fragment.c @@ -206,10 +206,11 @@ static void ip_expire(unsigned long arg) struct sk_buff *head = qp->q.fragments; /* Send an ICMP "Fragment Reassembly Timeout" message. */ - if ((head->dev = dev_get_by_index(net, qp->iif)) != NULL) { + rcu_read_lock(); + head->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, qp->iif); + if (head->dev) icmp_send(head, ICMP_TIME_EXCEEDED, ICMP_EXC_FRAGTIME, 0); - dev_put(head->dev); - } + rcu_read_unlock(); } out: spin_unlock(&qp->q.lock); -- cgit v1.2.3