Commit 05e8689c authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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ifb: RCU locking avoids touching dev refcount 



Avoids touching dev refcount in hotpath

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 3710becf

drivers/net/ifb.c

+4 −2
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@@ -98,13 +98,15 @@ static void ri_tasklet(unsigned long dev) 
		stats->tx_packets++;

		stats->tx_bytes +=skb->len;



		skb->dev = dev_get_by_index(&init_net, skb->iif);

		rcu_read_lock();

		skb->dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(&init_net, skb->iif);

		if (!skb->dev) {

			rcu_read_unlock();

			dev_kfree_skb(skb);

			stats->tx_dropped++;

			break;

		}

		dev_put(skb->dev);

		rcu_read_unlock();

		skb->iif = _dev->ifindex;



		if (from & AT_EGRESS) {