net: force a reload of first item in hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu
Roman Gushchin discovered that udp4_lib_lookup2() was not reloading first item in the rcu protected list, in case the loop was restarted. This produced soft lockups as in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/16/37 rcu_dereference(X)/ACCESS_ONCE(X) seem to not work as intended if X is ptr->field : In some cases, gcc caches the value or ptr->field in a register. Use a barrier() to disallow such caching, as documented in Documentation/atomic_ops.txt line 114 Thanks a lot to Roman for providing analysis and numerous patches. Diagnosed-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Boris Zhmurov <zhmurov@yandex-team.ru> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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