This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: use indirect call helpers for dst_output
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-use-indirect-call-helpers-for-dst_output.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 247645493d2852a79ea0ffe6e3a8f5b698cf7b29
Author: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Feb 1 17:41:30 2021 +0000
net: use indirect call helpers for dst_output
[ Upstream commit 6585d7dc491d9d5e323ed52ee32ad071e04c9dfa ]
This patch avoids the indirect call for the common case:
ip6_output and ip_output
Signed-off-by: Brian Vazquez <brianvv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 13e55fbaec17 ("net: ipv6: fix dst ref loop on input in rpl lwt")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/include/net/dst.h b/include/net/dst.h
index 907b4b5893a67..af57a6284444c 100644
--- a/include/net/dst.h
+++ b/include/net/dst.h
@@ -431,10 +431,16 @@ static inline void dst_set_expires(struct dst_entry *dst, int timeout)
dst->expires = expires;
}
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int ip6_output(struct net *, struct sock *,
+ struct sk_buff *));
+INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int ip_output(struct net *, struct sock *,
+ struct sk_buff *));
/* Output packet to network from transport. */
static inline int dst_output(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- return skb_dst(skb)->output(net, sk, skb);
+ return INDIRECT_CALL_INET(skb_dst(skb)->output,
+ ip6_output, ip_output,
+ net, sk, skb);
}
INDIRECT_CALLABLE_DECLARE(int ip6_input(struct sk_buff *));
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 12ee857d6cfe4..1e430e135aa60 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ int ip_output(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
ip_finish_output,
!(IPCB(skb)->flags & IPSKB_REROUTED));
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip_output);
/*
* copy saddr and daddr, possibly using 64bit load/stores
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 4da3238836b73..5003c5a23fa70 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -236,6 +236,7 @@ int ip6_output(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
ip6_finish_output,
!(IP6CB(skb)->flags & IP6SKB_REROUTED));
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip6_output);
bool ip6_autoflowlabel(struct net *net, const struct ipv6_pinfo *np)
{
