Commit 7e36763b authored by Frank Blaschka's avatar Frank Blaschka Committed by David S. Miller

[NET]: Fix race in generic address resolution.

neigh_update sends skb from neigh->arp_queue while neigh_timer_handler
has increased skbs refcount and calls solicit with the
skb. neigh_timer_handler should not increase skbs refcount but make a
copy of the skb and do solicit with the copy.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrank Blaschka <frank.blaschka@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent c3d84a4d
......@@ -839,7 +839,7 @@ static void neigh_timer_handler(unsigned long arg)
struct sk_buff *skb = skb_peek(&neigh->arp_queue);
/* keep skb alive even if arp_queue overflows */
if (skb)
skb_get(skb);
skb = skb_copy(skb, GFP_ATOMIC);
write_unlock(&neigh->lock);
neigh->ops->solicit(neigh, skb);
atomic_inc(&neigh->probes);
......
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