From: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 05:15:37 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: neigh: Convert over to dst_neigh_lookup_skb().
X-Git-Tag: v3.6-rc1~125^2~312
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=13a43d94ab026c423dc8902170ef27c2bd36aa87;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

neigh: Convert over to dst_neigh_lookup_skb().

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/core/neighbour.c b/net/core/neighbour.c
index a793af9af15..117afaf5126 100644
--- a/net/core/neighbour.c
+++ b/net/core/neighbour.c
@@ -1201,10 +1201,23 @@ int neigh_update(struct neighbour *neigh, const u8 *lladdr, u8 new,
 			write_unlock_bh(&neigh->lock);
 
 			rcu_read_lock();
-			/* On shaper/eql skb->dst->neighbour != neigh :( */
-			if (dst && (n2 = dst_get_neighbour_noref(dst)) != NULL)
-				n1 = n2;
+
+			/* Why not just use 'neigh' as-is?  The problem is that
+			 * things such as shaper, eql, and sch_teql can end up
+			 * using alternative, different, neigh objects to output
+			 * the packet in the output path.  So what we need to do
+			 * here is re-lookup the top-level neigh in the path so
+			 * we can reinject the packet there.
+			 */
+			n2 = NULL;
+			if (dst) {
+				n2 = dst_neigh_lookup_skb(dst, skb);
+				if (n2)
+					n1 = n2;
+			}
 			n1->output(n1, skb);
+			if (n2)
+				neigh_release(n2);
 			rcu_read_unlock();
 
 			write_lock_bh(&neigh->lock);