Commit 1a513170 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Ben Hutchings

net: fix a race in dst_release()

commit d69bbf88 upstream.

Only cpu seeing dst refcount going to 0 can safely
dereference dst->flags.

Otherwise an other cpu might already have freed the dst.

Fixes: 27b75c95 ("net: avoid RCU for NOCACHE dst")
Reported-by: default avatarGreg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
parent 7abbc81b
......@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ void dst_release(struct dst_entry *dst)
newrefcnt = atomic_dec_return(&dst->__refcnt);
WARN_ON(newrefcnt < 0);
if (unlikely(dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE) && !newrefcnt) {
if (!newrefcnt && unlikely(dst->flags & DST_NOCACHE)) {
dst = dst_destroy(dst);
if (dst)
__dst_free(dst);
......
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