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    neigh: Explicitly declare RCU-bh read side critical section in neigh_xmit() · b560f03d
    David Barroso authored
    neigh_xmit() expects to be called inside an RCU-bh read side critical
    section, and while one of its two current callers gets this right, the
    other one doesn't.
    
    More specifically, neigh_xmit() has two callers, mpls_forward() and
    mpls_output(), and while both callers call neigh_xmit() under
    rcu_read_lock(), this provides sufficient protection for neigh_xmit()
    only in the case of mpls_forward(), as that is always called from
    softirq context and therefore doesn't need explicit BH protection,
    while mpls_output() can be called from process context with softirqs
    enabled.
    
    When mpls_output() is called from process context, with softirqs
    enabled, we can be preempted by a softirq at any time, and RCU-bh
    considers the completion of a softirq as signaling the end of any
    pending read-side critical sections, so if we do get a softirq
    while we are in the part of neigh_xmit() that expects to be run inside
    an RCU-bh read side critical section, we can end up with an unexpected
    RCU grace period running right in the middle of that critical section,
    making things go boom.
    
    This patch fixes this impedance mismatch in the callee, by making
    neigh_xmit() always take rcu_read_{,un}lock_bh() around the code that
    expects to be treated as an RCU-bh read side critical section, as this
    seems a safer option than fixing it in the callers.
    
    Fixes: 4fd3d7d9
    
     ("neigh: Add helper function neigh_xmit")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Barroso <dbarroso@fastly.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLennert Buytenhek <lbuytenhek@fastly.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarRobert Shearman <rshearma@brocade.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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