This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sctp: check cached dst before using it
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sctp-check-cached-dst-before-using-it.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From 4180bf86f186496e2b8b3dccd2edc010f4be2eb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 05:24:54 +0000 Subject: sctp: check cached dst before using it From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> [ Upstream commit e0268868ba064980488fc8c194db3d8e9fb2959c ] dst_check() will take care of SA (and obsolete field), hence IPsec rekeying scenario is taken into account. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dich...@6wind.com> Acked-by: Vlad Yaseivch <vyasev...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- include/net/sctp/sctp.h | 13 +++++++++++++ net/sctp/output.c | 4 +--- net/sctp/transport.c | 17 ----------------- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) --- a/include/net/sctp/sctp.h +++ b/include/net/sctp/sctp.h @@ -700,4 +700,17 @@ static inline void sctp_v4_map_v6(union addr->v6.sin6_addr.s6_addr32[2] = htonl(0x0000ffff); } +/* The cookie is always 0 since this is how it's used in the + * pmtu code. + */ +static inline struct dst_entry *sctp_transport_dst_check(struct sctp_transport *t) +{ + if (t->dst && !dst_check(t->dst, 0)) { + dst_release(t->dst); + t->dst = NULL; + } + + return t->dst; +} + #endif /* __net_sctp_h__ */ --- a/net/sctp/output.c +++ b/net/sctp/output.c @@ -377,9 +377,7 @@ int sctp_packet_transmit(struct sctp_pac */ skb_set_owner_w(nskb, sk); - /* The 'obsolete' field of dst is set to 2 when a dst is freed. */ - if (!dst || (dst->obsolete > 1)) { - dst_release(dst); + if (!sctp_transport_dst_check(tp)) { sctp_transport_route(tp, NULL, sctp_sk(sk)); if (asoc && (asoc->param_flags & SPP_PMTUD_ENABLE)) { sctp_assoc_sync_pmtu(asoc); --- a/net/sctp/transport.c +++ b/net/sctp/transport.c @@ -226,23 +226,6 @@ void sctp_transport_pmtu(struct sctp_tra transport->pathmtu = SCTP_DEFAULT_MAXSEGMENT; } -/* this is a complete rip-off from __sk_dst_check - * the cookie is always 0 since this is how it's used in the - * pmtu code - */ -static struct dst_entry *sctp_transport_dst_check(struct sctp_transport *t) -{ - struct dst_entry *dst = t->dst; - - if (dst && dst->obsolete && dst->ops->check(dst, 0) == NULL) { - dst_release(t->dst); - t->dst = NULL; - return NULL; - } - - return dst; -} - void sctp_transport_update_pmtu(struct sctp_transport *t, u32 pmtu) { struct dst_entry *dst; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.dich...@6wind.com are queue-3.0/sctp-check-cached-dst-before-using-it.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html