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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vvs@parallels.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_append_data()
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:12:25 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141014.161225.1399177558139744041.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543CAD2A.3070701@parallels.com>

From: Vasily Averin <vvs@parallels.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:57:14 +0400

> v2: adjust the indentation of the arguments __ip_append_data() call
> 
> Fixes: 2e77d89b2fa8 ("net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append_data()")
> 
> If sk_write_queue is empty ip_append_data() executes ip_setup_cork()
> that "steals" dst entry from rt to cork. Later it calls __ip_append_data()
> that creates skb and adds it to sk_write_queue.
> 
> If skb was added successfully following ip_push_pending_frames() call
> reassign dst entries from cork to skb, and kfree_skb frees dst_entry.
> 
> However nobody frees stolen dst_entry if skb was not added into sk_write_queue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@parallels.com>

Why doesn't ip_make_skb() need the same fix?  It seems to do the same
thing.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-14 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-14  4:57 [PATCH v2] ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_append_data() Vasily Averin
2014-10-14 20:12 ` David Miller [this message]
2014-10-15  7:48   ` Vasily Averin
2014-10-15  4:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-15  6:56   ` Vasily Averin
2014-10-15  9:30     ` Eric Dumazet
2014-10-15 11:31       ` Vasily Averin

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