inet: add RCU protection to inet->opt
authorEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:45:37 +0000 (09:45 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:16:35 +0000 (13:16 -0700)
commitf6d8bd051c391c1c0458a30b2a7abcd939329259
tree1dc4daecdeb0b42c2c6b59d7d6b41e091c11db5f
parent0a14842f5a3c0e88a1e59fac5c3025db39721f74
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>
17 files changed:
include/net/inet_sock.h
include/net/ip.h
net/dccp/ipv4.c
net/dccp/ipv6.c
net/ipv4/af_inet.c
net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/icmp.c
net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c
net/ipv4/ip_options.c
net/ipv4/ip_output.c
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
net/ipv4/raw.c
net/ipv4/syncookies.c
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
net/ipv4/udp.c
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c