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| author |   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2011-04-21 09:45:37 +0000 |
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| committer |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-04-28 13:16:35 -0700 |
| commit | f6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dc4daecdeb0b42c2c6b59d7d6b41e091c11db5f /Documentation | |
| parent | net: filter: Just In Time compiler for x86-64 (diff) | |
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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>
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