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authorBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com>2017-10-11 10:49:02 -0700
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>2017-10-14 20:47:06 -0400
commitb965b51c55c5a21d65ca36592c6048ea60c3ace9 (patch)
treecf809d38461907347cce99f54a03b0df0d1e53d4
parentIB/hns: Declare local functions 'static' (diff)
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RDMA/i40iw: Fix a race condition
Use the proper primitives to dereference the RCU pointer upper_dev->ip_ptr. Compile-tested only. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_utils.c13
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_utils.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_utils.c
index e52dbbb4165e..7304189b62ef 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_utils.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/i40iw_utils.c
@@ -168,11 +168,16 @@ int i40iw_inetaddr_event(struct notifier_block *notifier,
if (netdev != event_netdev)
return NOTIFY_DONE;
- if (upper_dev)
- local_ipaddr = ntohl(
- ((struct in_device *)upper_dev->ip_ptr)->ifa_list->ifa_address);
- else
+ if (upper_dev) {
+ struct in_device *in;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ in = __in_dev_get_rcu(upper_dev);
+ local_ipaddr = ntohl(in->ifa_list->ifa_address);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ } else {
local_ipaddr = ntohl(ifa->ifa_address);
+ }
switch (event) {
case NETDEV_DOWN:
action = I40IW_ARP_DELETE;