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authorChristoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>2014-01-21 12:30:26 (GMT)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-01-23 05:26:16 (GMT)
commit00ca9c5b2b11d44eaf20a4b647efc999734323ec (patch)
treefbcafcdcc52950691a0430ad377448216fbcfd84 /Kbuild
parent7705b10463622006dce368a47fa9d4dd7b6489ec (diff)
downloadlinux-00ca9c5b2b11d44eaf20a4b647efc999734323ec.tar.xz
tcp: metrics: Fix rcu-race when deleting multiple entries
In bbf852b96ebdc6d1 I introduced the tmlist, which allows to delete multiple entries from the cache that match a specified destination if no source-IP is specified. However, as the cache is an RCU-list, we should not create this tmlist, as it will change the tcpm_next pointer of the element that will be deleted and so a thread iterating over the cache's entries while holding the RCU-lock might get "redirected" to this tmlist. This patch fixes this, by reverting back to the old behavior prior to bbf852b96ebdc6d1, which means that we simply change the tcpm_next pointer of the previous element (pp) to jump over the one we are deleting. The difference is that we call kfree_rcu() directly on the cache entry, which allows us to delete multiple entries from the list. Fixes: bbf852b96ebdc6d1 (tcp: metrics: Delete all entries matching a certain destination) Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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