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SubjectRe: [ 072/102] ipv6: do not clear pinet6 field
On 22.05.2013 01:47, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 15:44 +0400, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> I think, it's good, but not enough.
>>
>> We still can't rely on the sk->sk_family field by dereferencing the
>> inet_sk(sk)->pinet6 field, because we can set the sk_family field to
>> the PF_INET6 value before setting pinet6 to an appropriate value
>> (assuming it is NULL just because it was not a PF_INET6 socket in a
>> previous life).
>>
>> net/ipv6/af_inet6.c:
>> static int inet6_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int
>> protocol, int kern)
>> {
>> <...>
>> err = -ENOBUFS;
>> sk = sk_alloc(net, PF_INET6, GFP_KERNEL, answer_prot);
>> if (sk == NULL)
>> goto out;
>> <...>
>> sk->sk_destruct = inet_sock_destruct;
>> sk->sk_family = PF_INET6;
>> sk->sk_protocol = protocol;
>>
>> sk->sk_backlog_rcv = answer->prot->backlog_rcv;
>>
>> inet_sk(sk)->pinet6 = np = inet6_sk_generic(sk);
>> <...>
>> }
>>
>> net/core/sock.c:
>> struct sock *sk_alloc(struct net *net, int family, gfp_t priority,
>> struct proto *prot)
>> {
>> struct sock *sk;
>>
>> sk = sk_prot_alloc(prot, priority | __GFP_ZERO, family);
>> if (sk) {
>> sk->sk_family = family;
>> <...>
>> }
>>
>>
>> So, we need to care about setting sk_family to PF_INET6 _strictly_ after
>> setting the pinet6 field to a valid value (using rcu_assign_pointer(),
>> for instance).
>
> This can never happen.
>
> A socket cannot be find in a hash chain while pinet6 is not set.
>
> For a given socket pointer sk (say TCP or UDP), pinet6 is a constant and
> cannot change. (This is a property of SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU : slab cannot
> be merged, so all objects are of the same type)

I missed that.
>
> So the order of writing sk_family / pinet6 is irrelevant.

Agree.

Thank you for clarification!

Regards,
Roman


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