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authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>2011-04-21 09:45:37 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-04-28 13:16:35 -0700
commitf6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 (patch)
tree1dc4daecdeb0b42c2c6b59d7d6b41e091c11db5f /net/ipv6
parent0a14842f5a3c0e88a1e59fac5c3025db39721f74 (diff)
downloadlinux-f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259.tar.bz2
inet: add RCU protection to inet->opt
We lack proper synchronization to manipulate inet->opt ip_options Problem is ip_make_skb() calls ip_setup_cork() and ip_setup_cork() possibly makes a copy of ipc->opt (struct ip_options), without any protection against another thread manipulating inet->opt. Another thread can change inet->opt pointer and free old one under us. Use RCU to protect inet->opt (changed to inet->inet_opt). Instead of handling atomic refcounts, just copy ip_options when necessary, to avoid cache line dirtying. We cant insert an rcu_head in struct ip_options since its included in skb->cb[], so this patch is large because I had to introduce a new ip_options_rcu structure. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index cb7658aceb6c..868366470b4a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -1469,7 +1469,7 @@ static struct sock * tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
First: no IPv4 options.
*/
- newinet->opt = NULL;
+ newinet->inet_opt = NULL;
newnp->ipv6_fl_list = NULL;
/* Clone RX bits */