netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] sctp: proc: protect bind_addr->address_list accesses with rcu_read

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Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:12:57 -0500
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sctp: proc: protect bind_addr->address_list accesses
 with rcu_read_lock()

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 03:07:20PM -0500, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 02:25 PM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> >From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...hat.com>
> >
> >address_list is protected via the socket lock or RCU. Since we don't want
> >to take the socket lock for each assoc we dump in procfs a RCU read-side
> >critical section must be entered.
> >
> >V2: Skip local addresses marked as dead
> >
> >Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
> >Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> >Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> 
> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...il.com>
> 
> -vlad
> 
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

> >---
> >  net/sctp/proc.c | 7 ++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/net/sctp/proc.c b/net/sctp/proc.c
> >index 9966e7b..06b05ee 100644
> >--- a/net/sctp/proc.c
> >+++ b/net/sctp/proc.c
> >@@ -139,7 +139,11 @@ static void sctp_seq_dump_local_addrs(struct seq_file *seq, struct sctp_ep_commo
> >  	    primary = &peer->saddr;
> >  	}
> >
> >-	list_for_each_entry(laddr, &epb->bind_addr.address_list, list) {
> >+	rcu_read_lock();
> >+	list_for_each_entry_rcu(laddr, &epb->bind_addr.address_list, list) {
> >+		if (!laddr->valid)
> >+			continue;
> >+
> >  		addr = &laddr->a;
> >  		af = sctp_get_af_specific(addr->sa.sa_family);
> >  		if (primary && af->cmp_addr(addr, primary)) {
> >@@ -147,6 +151,7 @@ static void sctp_seq_dump_local_addrs(struct seq_file *seq, struct sctp_ep_commo
> >  		}
> >  		af->seq_dump_addr(seq, addr);
> >  	}
> >+	rcu_read_unlock();
> >  }
> >
> >  /* Dump remote addresses of an association. */
> >
> 
> 
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