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[net-next,1/2] ipv6: addrlabel: rework ip6addrlbl_get()

Message ID 20171009165225.7008-2-edumazet@google.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series ipv6: addrlabel: avoid dirtying ip6addrlbl_entry | expand

Commit Message

Eric Dumazet Oct. 9, 2017, 4:52 p.m. UTC 
If we allocate skb before the lookup, we can use RCU
without the need of ip6addrlbl_hold()

This means that the following patch can get rid of refcounting.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrlabel.c | 36 +++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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Patch

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c b/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
index c6311d7108f651c7385cd6316752ba4a86667dcc..f31489652c4ae1fc0c93d1756e13717f0689b0ab 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
@@ -546,38 +546,28 @@  static int ip6addrlbl_get(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 		return -EINVAL;
 	addr = nla_data(tb[IFAL_ADDRESS]);
 
-	rcu_read_lock();
-	p = __ipv6_addr_label(net, addr, ipv6_addr_type(addr), ifal->ifal_index);
-	if (p && !ip6addrlbl_hold(p))
-		p = NULL;
-	lseq = net->ipv6.ip6addrlbl_table.seq;
-	rcu_read_unlock();
-
-	if (!p) {
-		err = -ESRCH;
-		goto out;
-	}
-
 	skb = nlmsg_new(ip6addrlbl_msgsize(), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!skb) {
-		ip6addrlbl_put(p);
+	if (!skb)
 		return -ENOBUFS;
-	}
 
-	err = ip6addrlbl_fill(skb, p, lseq,
-			      NETLINK_CB(in_skb).portid, nlh->nlmsg_seq,
-			      RTM_NEWADDRLABEL, 0);
+	err = -ESRCH;
 
-	ip6addrlbl_put(p);
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	p = __ipv6_addr_label(net, addr, ipv6_addr_type(addr), ifal->ifal_index);
+	lseq = net->ipv6.ip6addrlbl_table.seq;
+	if (p)
+		err = ip6addrlbl_fill(skb, p, lseq,
+				      NETLINK_CB(in_skb).portid,
+				      nlh->nlmsg_seq,
+				      RTM_NEWADDRLABEL, 0);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	if (err < 0) {
 		WARN_ON(err == -EMSGSIZE);
 		kfree_skb(skb);
-		goto out;
+	} else {
+		err = rtnl_unicast(skb, net, NETLINK_CB(in_skb).portid);
 	}
-
-	err = rtnl_unicast(skb, net, NETLINK_CB(in_skb).portid);
-out:
 	return err;
 }