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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2010-07-07 14:58:56 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-07-07 14:58:56 -0700
commit28172739f0a276eb8d6ca917b3974c2edb036da3 (patch)
treeb1dc00cfa20c209992e247c6f73601f609f9ca3b /net/core/rtnetlink.c
parent217d32dc5f299c483ca0d3c8cc6811c72c0339c4 (diff)
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net: fix 64 bit counters on 32 bit arches
There is a small possibility that a reader gets incorrect values on 32 bit arches. SNMP applications could catch incorrect counters when a 32bit high part is changed by another stats consumer/provider. One way to solve this is to add a rtnl_link_stats64 param to all ndo_get_stats64() methods, and also add such a parameter to dev_get_stats(). Rule is that we are not allowed to use dev->stats64 as a temporary storage for 64bit stats, but a caller provided area (usually on stack) Old drivers (only providing get_stats() method) need no changes. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/rtnetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/rtnetlink.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index e645778e9b7e..5e773ea2201d 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -791,6 +791,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
{
struct ifinfomsg *ifm;
struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
+ struct rtnl_link_stats64 temp;
const struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats;
struct nlattr *attr;
@@ -847,7 +848,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
if (attr == NULL)
goto nla_put_failure;
- stats = dev_get_stats(dev);
+ stats = dev_get_stats(dev, &temp);
copy_rtnl_link_stats(nla_data(attr), stats);
attr = nla_reserve(skb, IFLA_STATS64,
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