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authorDmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org>2006-08-31 15:28:39 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2006-09-22 15:18:47 -0700
commitfda9ef5d679b07c9d9097aaf6ef7f069d794a8f9 (patch)
tree6a265dc2038bc5568c5a499e6c8d4733650ed3f7 /net/core/filter.c
parentdc435e6dac1439340eaeceef84022c4e4749796d (diff)
[NET]: Fix sk->sk_filter field access
Function sk_filter() is called from tcp_v{4,6}_rcv() functions with arg needlock = 0, while socket is not locked at that moment. In order to avoid this and similar issues in the future, use rcu for sk->sk_filter field read protection. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mishin <dim@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core/filter.c')
-rw-r--r--net/core/filter.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/filter.c b/net/core/filter.c
index 5b4486a60cf..6732782a5a4 100644
--- a/net/core/filter.c
+++ b/net/core/filter.c
@@ -422,10 +422,10 @@ int sk_attach_filter(struct sock_fprog *fprog, struct sock *sk)
if (!err) {
struct sk_filter *old_fp;
- spin_lock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock);
- old_fp = sk->sk_filter;
- sk->sk_filter = fp;
- spin_unlock_bh(&sk->sk_lock.slock);
+ rcu_read_lock_bh();
+ old_fp = rcu_dereference(sk->sk_filter);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(sk->sk_filter, fp);
+ rcu_read_unlock_bh();
fp = old_fp;
}