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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2012-01-31 18:45:40 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2012-02-01 02:11:47 -0500 |
| commit | a8afca032998850ec63e83d555cdcf0eb5680cd6 (patch) | |
| tree | 012c06f6b3a2bfa6a908954a671b1e36e2198eb6 /include/net/tcp.h | |
| parent | 41de8d4cff21a2e81e3d9ff66f5f7c903f9c3ab1 (diff) | |
tcp: md5: protects md5sig_info with RCU
This patch makes sure we use appropriate memory barriers before
publishing tp->md5sig_info, allowing tcp_md5_do_lookup() being used from
tcp_v4_send_reset() without holding socket lock (upcoming patch from
Shawn Lu)
Note we also need to respect rcu grace period before its freeing, since
we can free socket without this grace period thanks to
SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Shawn Lu <shawn.lu@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/net/tcp.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/net/tcp.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/net/tcp.h b/include/net/tcp.h index 10ae4c7b6b4..78880ba0f56 100644 --- a/include/net/tcp.h +++ b/include/net/tcp.h @@ -1150,6 +1150,7 @@ struct tcp_md5sig_key { /* - sock block */ struct tcp_md5sig_info { struct hlist_head head; + struct rcu_head rcu; }; /* - pseudo header */ |