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* [PATCH] sctp: proc: protect bind_addr->address_list accesses with rcu_read_lock()
@ 2012-12-06 17:34 Thomas Graf
  2012-12-06 18:25 ` Vlad Yasevich
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thomas Graf @ 2012-12-06 17:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-sctp; +Cc: netdev, Vlad Yasevich, Neil Horman

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.

Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail•com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver•com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug•ch>
---
 net/sctp/proc.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/proc.c b/net/sctp/proc.c
index 9966e7b..ec9b0c8 100644
--- a/net/sctp/proc.c
+++ b/net/sctp/proc.c
@@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ 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) {
 		addr = &laddr->a;
 		af = sctp_get_af_specific(addr->sa.sa_family);
 		if (primary && af->cmp_addr(addr, primary)) {
@@ -147,6 +148,7 @@ 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. */
-- 
1.7.11.7

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