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Commit 7f88c6b2 authored by Hannes Frederic Sowa's avatar Hannes Frederic Sowa Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv6: fix possible seqlock deadlock in ip6_finish_output2



IPv6 stats are 64 bits and thus are protected with a seqlock. By not
disabling bottom-half we could deadlock here if we don't disable bh and
a softirq reentrantly updates the same mib.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 696701b8
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