netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv4: Invalidate the socket cached route on pmtu events if possible

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:18:07 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	steffen.klassert@...unet.com
Cc:	Yurij.Plotnikov@...etlabs.ru, ja@....bg, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv4: Invalidate the socket cached route on pmtu
 events if possible

From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:59:11 +0100

> The route lookup in ipv4_sk_update_pmtu() might return a route
> different from the route we cached at the socket. This is because
> standart routes are per cpu, so each cpu has it's own struct rtable.
> This means that we do not invalidate the socket cached route if the
> NET_RX_SOFTIRQ is not served by the same cpu that the sending socket
> uses. As a result, the cached route reused until we disconnect.
> 
> With this patch we invalidate the socket cached route if possible.
> If the socket is owened by the user, we can't update the cached
> route directly. A followup patch will implement socket release
> callback functions for datagram sockets to handle this case.
> 
> Reported-by: Yurij M. Plotnikov <Yurij.Plotnikov@...etlabs.ru>
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>

Applied.
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