From 2899656b494dcd118123af1126826b115c8ea6f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amerigo Wang Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 01:24:42 +0000 Subject: netpoll: take rcu_read_lock_bh() in netpoll_send_skb_on_dev() This patch fixes several problems in the call path of netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(): 1. Disable IRQ's before calling netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(). 2. All the callees of netpoll_send_skb_on_dev() should use rcu_dereference_bh() to dereference ->npinfo. 3. Rename arp_reply() to netpoll_arp_reply(), the former is too generic. Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netpoll.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h index 2d178baa49df..61aee86cf21d 100644 --- a/include/linux/netpoll.h +++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h @@ -57,7 +57,10 @@ void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev); static inline void netpoll_send_skb(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb) { + unsigned long flags; + local_irq_save(flags); netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(np, skb, np->dev); + local_irq_restore(flags); } -- cgit v1.2.3