ipv4: do not abuse GFP_ATOMIC in inet_netconf_notify_devconf()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fri, 8 Jul 2016 03:18:24 +0000 (05:18 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 9 Jul 2016 22:12:25 +0000 (18:12 -0400)
commitfa17806cde76fb1087532f07e72aa757a30e0500
tree89493cdb11e72b554373adfa2de627407ef908e1
parentdb9a1ba55a94b87d1ccbcdb74a35307f7a40aa9b
ipv4: do not abuse GFP_ATOMIC in inet_netconf_notify_devconf()

inet_forward_change() runs with RTNL held.
We are allowed to sleep if required.

If we use __in_dev_get_rtnl() instead of __in_dev_get_rcu(),
we no longer have to use GFP_ATOMIC allocations in
inet_netconf_notify_devconf(), meaning we are less likely to miss
notifications under memory pressure, and wont touch precious memory
reserves either and risk dropping incoming packets.

inet_netconf_get_devconf() can also use GFP_KERNEL allocation.

Fixes: edc9e748934c ("rtnl/ipv4: use netconf msg to advertise forwarding status")
Fixes: 9e5511106f99 ("rtnl/ipv4: add support of RTM_GETNETCONF")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv4/devinet.c