Wei Wang
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With rwlock, it is safe to call dst_hold() in the read thread because read thread is guaranteed to be separated from write thread. However, after we replace rwlock with rcu, it is no longer safe to use dst_hold(). A dst might already have been deleted but is waiting for the rcu grace period to pass before freeing the memory when a read thread is trying to do dst_hold(). This could potentially cause double free issue. So this commit replaces all dst_hold() with dst_hold_safe() in all read thread to avoid this double free issue. And in order to make the code more compact, a new function ip6_hold_safe() is introduced. It calls dst_hold_safe() first, and if that fails, it will either fall back to hold and return net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry or set rt to NULL according to the caller's need. Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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