inet: add RCU protection to inet->opt
commit f6d8bd05 upstream. 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> [dannf/bwh: backported to Debian's 2.6.32] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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