From 685c7944055b9de51ff509719070afae92b3dbe1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 19:31:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] icmp: icmp_send() can avoid a dev_put() We can avoid touching device refcount in icmp_send(), using dev_get_by_index_rcu() Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv4/icmp.c | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/icmp.c b/net/ipv4/icmp.c index 84adb5754c9..fe11f60ce41 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/icmp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/icmp.c @@ -501,15 +501,16 @@ void icmp_send(struct sk_buff *skb_in, int type, int code, __be32 info) if (!(rt->rt_flags & RTCF_LOCAL)) { struct net_device *dev = NULL; + rcu_read_lock(); if (rt->fl.iif && net->ipv4.sysctl_icmp_errors_use_inbound_ifaddr) - dev = dev_get_by_index(net, rt->fl.iif); + dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, rt->fl.iif); - if (dev) { + if (dev) saddr = inet_select_addr(dev, 0, RT_SCOPE_LINK); - dev_put(dev); - } else + else saddr = 0; + rcu_read_unlock(); } tos = icmp_pointers[type].error ? ((iph->tos & IPTOS_TOS_MASK) |