netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v6 2/7 RFC] TCPCT part 1b: generate Responder Cookie

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Date:	Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:26:34 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v6 2/7 RFC] TCPCT part 1b: generate
 Responder Cookie

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 23:17 -0500, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> +int tcp_cookie_generator(u32 *bakery)
> +{
> +	unsigned long jiffy = jiffies;
> +
> +	if (unlikely(time_after_eq(jiffy, tcp_secret_generating->expires))) {
> +		spin_lock_bh(&tcp_secret_locker);
> +		if (!time_after_eq(jiffy, tcp_secret_generating->expires)) {
> +			/* refreshed by another */
> +			spin_unlock_bh(&tcp_secret_locker);
> +			memcpy(bakery,
> +			       &tcp_secret_generating->secrets[0],
> +			       sizeof(tcp_secret_generating->secrets));
> +		} else {
> +			u32 secrets[COOKIE_WORKSPACE_WORDS];

Rather than using stack, could you use
u32 *secrets = &tcp_secret_secondary->secrets[0];


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