linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: add complete rcu protection around np->opt

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Message-Id: <1448968286.3318880.454548345.76FA2174@webmail.messagingengine.com>
Date:	Tue, 01 Dec 2015 12:11:26 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Cc:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	William Dauchy <wdauchy@...il.com>,
	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@...ileactivedefense.com>,
	syzkaller <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
	Kostya Serebryany <kcc@...gle.com>,
	Alexander Potapenko <glider@...gle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: add complete rcu protection around np->opt

Hi Eric,

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015, at 04:37, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> -                       opt = xchg(&np->opt, NULL);
> -                       if (opt)
> -                               sock_kfree_s(sk, opt, opt->tot_len);
> +                       opt = xchg((__force struct ipv6_txoptions
> **)&np->opt,
> +                                  NULL);
> +                       if (opt) {
> +                               atomic_sub(opt->tot_len,
> &sk->sk_omem_alloc);
> +                               txopt_put(opt);
> +                       }
>  			pktopt = xchg(&np->pktoptions, NULL);
>  			kfree_skb(pktopt);

Is here something special going on (because of the xchg). I don't see
why you cannot simply use a RCU_INIT_POINTER?

Thanks,
Hannes
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