Question about locking in ndisc.c
From: Paul Marks <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-04 20:52:29
From: Paul Marks <hidden>
Date: 2012-12-04 20:52:29
I've been reading through net/ipv6/ndisc.c recently (trying to determine if it'd be feasible to implement RFC6724 Rule 5.5), and I'm confused by the lack of visible locking in the ndisc_router_discovery() function. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=net/ipv6/ndisc.c;h=2edce30ef7338cdf1916eef98b353c7dbbc7bcda;hb=HEAD#l1048 There are values written all over the place, for example: - in6_dev->if_flags - neigh->flags - rt->rt6i_flags - in6_dev->nd_parms->... - in6_dev->tstamp But I've looked through ndisc.c and icmp.c, and I can't find anything that would protect this data from concurrent access. Is there something I'm missing?