netpoll: Disable IRQ around RCU dereference in netpoll_rx

We cannot use rcu_dereference_bh safely in netpoll_rx as we may be called with IRQs disabled. We could however simply disable IRQs as that too causes BH to be disabled and is safe in either case. Thanks to John Linville for discovering this bug and providing a patch. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
chewitt · Sep 17, 2010 · f0f9dea · f0f9dea
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commit f0f9dea
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h
@@ -63,20 +63,20 @@ static inline bool netpoll_rx(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	bool ret = false;
 
-	rcu_read_lock_bh();
+	local_irq_save(flags);
 	npinfo = rcu_dereference_bh(skb->dev->npinfo);
 
 	if (!npinfo || (list_empty(&npinfo->rx_np) && !npinfo->rx_flags))
 		goto out;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock(&npinfo->rx_lock);
 	/* check rx_flags again with the lock held */
 	if (npinfo->rx_flags && __netpoll_rx(skb))
 		ret = true;
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&npinfo->rx_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock(&npinfo->rx_lock);
 
 out:
-	rcu_read_unlock_bh();
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
 	return ret;
 }