netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] net: tcp6: fix double call of tcp_v6_fill

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Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:37:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexey.kodanev@...cle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, vasily.isaenko@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: tcp6: fix double call of tcp_v6_fill_cb()

From: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:24:22 +0300

> 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.
> 
> Fixes: 2dc49d1680b53 ("tcp6: don't move IP6CB before xfrm6_policy_check()")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@...cle.com>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.
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