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authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>2023-09-12 16:01:59 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2023-09-15 10:33:46 +0100
commitb0adfba7ee770fef20b1b6d86706c28f7fccfb07 (patch)
tree4a7a9fe910c850fcc4492d034cf57d0db89c4ae2 /net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
parentf2fa1c812c91e99d0317d1fc7d845e1e05f39716 (diff)
ipv6: lockless IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS implementation
Some np->hop_limit accesses are racy, when socket lock is not held. Add missing annotations and switch to full lockless implementation. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ip6_output.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_output.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 54fc4c711f2c..1e16d56d8c38 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ int ip6_xmit(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct flowi6 *fl6,
* Fill in the IPv6 header
*/
if (np)
- hlimit = np->hop_limit;
+ hlimit = READ_ONCE(np->hop_limit);
if (hlimit < 0)
hlimit = ip6_dst_hoplimit(dst);