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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
To: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: vasily.isaenko@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: tcp6: fix double call of tcp_v6_fill_cb()
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:08:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <551412C5.3050804@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427358484-16402-1-git-send-email-alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>

Hello.

On 3/26/2015 11:28 AM, Alexey Kodanev wrote:

> Regression from the following commit: 2dc49d1680.

    Please also specify that commit's summary line in parens.

> tcp_v6_fill_cb() will be called twice if socket's state changes from
> TCP_TIME_WAIT to TCP_LISTEN. That can result in control buffer data
> corruption because in the second tcp_v6_fill_cb() call it's not copying
> IP6CB(skb) anymore, but 'seq', 'end_seq', etc., so we can get weird and
> unpredictable results. Performance loss of up to 1200% has been observed
> in LTP/vxlan03 test.

> This can be fixed by copying inet6_skb_parm to the beginning of 'cb'
> only if xfrm6_policy_check() and tcp_v6_fill_cb() are going to be
> called again.

> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>

[...]

WBR, Sergei

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-26 14:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-26  8:28 [PATCH v2] net: tcp6: fix double call of tcp_v6_fill_cb() Alexey Kodanev
2015-03-26 11:46 ` Eric Dumazet
2015-03-26 14:08 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]

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