netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Use netinet->inet_opt in inet_csk_route_child

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Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2012 02:51:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Use netinet->inet_opt in
 inet_csk_route_child_sock()

From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@...ouvain.be>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:35:12 +0200

> @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ struct dst_entry *inet_csk_route_child_sock(struct sock *sk,
>  {
>  	const struct inet_request_sock *ireq = inet_rsk(req);
>  	struct inet_sock *newinet = inet_sk(newsk);
> -	struct ip_options_rcu *opt = ireq->opt;
> +	struct ip_options_rcu *opt = rcu_dereference(newinet->inet_opt);
>  	struct net *net = sock_net(sk);

We're not inside of a rcu_read_lock() protected section, so this access
is not legitimate.  If you enabled RCU lock debugging, you would have
triggered a warning in the kernel log.
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