IPv6 stats are 64 bits and thus are protected with a seqlock. By not
disabling bottom-half we could deadlock here if we don't disable bh and
a softirq reentrantly updates the same mib.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@stressinduktion.org>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 59df872..4acdb63 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ static int ip6_finish_output2(struct sk_buff *skb)
        }
        rcu_read_unlock_bh();
 
-       IP6_INC_STATS_BH(dev_net(dst->dev),
-                        ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
+       IP6_INC_STATS(dev_net(dst->dev),
+                     ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
        kfree_skb(skb);
        return -EINVAL;
 }
-- 
1.8.3.1

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