From a8afca032998850ec63e83d555cdcf0eb5680cd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:45:40 +0000 Subject: 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 Cc: Shawn Lu Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'net/ipv6') diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c index bec41f9a641..c25018106ef 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c @@ -571,8 +571,6 @@ static int tcp_v6_parse_md5_keys (struct sock *sk, char __user *optval, return -EINVAL; if (!cmd.tcpm_keylen) { - if (!tcp_sk(sk)->md5sig_info) - return -ENOENT; if (ipv6_addr_v4mapped(&sin6->sin6_addr)) return tcp_md5_do_del(sk, (union tcp_md5_addr *)&sin6->sin6_addr.s6_addr32[3], AF_INET); -- cgit v1.2.3