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author | Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> | 2014-01-13 02:45:22 +0100 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-01-14 17:37:25 -0800 |
commit | 95f4a45de1a0f172b35451fc52283290adb21f6e (patch) | |
tree | 04574bc5a4f4b60133b3dbc72c5174a9f847b3b4 /drivers | |
parent | 7c4b5175f65f31e0cd9867a6ddc3171007dfc110 (diff) | |
download | linux-95f4a45de1a0f172b35451fc52283290adb21f6e.tar.bz2 |
net: avoid reference counter overflows on fib_rules in multicast forwarding
Bob Falken reported that after 4G packets, multicast forwarding stopped
working. This was because of a rule reference counter overflow which
freed the rule as soon as the overflow happend.
This patch solves this by adding the FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF flag to
fib_rules_lookup calls. This is safe even from non-rcu locked sections
as in this case the flag only implies not taking a reference to the rule,
which we don't need at all.
Rules only hold references to the namespace, which are guaranteed to be
available during the call of the non-rcu protected function reg_vif_xmit
because of the interface reference which itself holds a reference to
the net namespace.
Fixes: f0ad0860d01e47 ("ipv4: ipmr: support multiple tables")
Fixes: d1db275dd3f6e4 ("ipv6: ip6mr: support multiple tables")
Reported-by: Bob Falken <NetFestivalHaveFun@gmx.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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