linux/net/core
Richard Cochran da92b194cc net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps
The pair of functions,

 * skb_clone_tx_timestamp()
 * skb_complete_tx_timestamp()

were designed to allow timestamping in PHY devices. The first
function, called during the MAC driver's hard_xmit method, identifies
PTP protocol packets, clones them, and gives them to the PHY device
driver. The PHY driver may hold onto the packet and deliver it at a
later time using the second function, which adds the packet to the
socket's error queue.

As pointed out by Johannes, nothing prevents the socket from
disappearing while the cloned packet is sitting in the PHY driver
awaiting a timestamp. This patch fixes the issue by taking a reference
on the socket for each such packet. In addition, the comments
regarding the usage of these function are expanded to highlight the
rule that PHY drivers must use skb_complete_tx_timestamp() to release
the packet, in order to release the socket reference, too.

These functions first appeared in v2.6.36.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-10-24 02:54:50 -04:00
..
datagram.c Fix a typo in datagram.c and sctp/socket.c. 2010-12-06 13:10:11 -08:00
dev_addr_lists.c net,rcu: convert call_rcu(ha_rcu_free) to kfree_rcu() 2011-05-07 22:50:52 -07:00
dev.c net: copy userspace buffers on device forwarding 2011-09-15 14:49:44 -04:00
drop_monitor.c net,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_dm_hw_stat) to kfree_rcu() 2011-05-07 22:50:59 -07:00
dst.c net: Abstract dst->neighbour accesses behind helpers. 2011-07-17 23:11:35 -07:00
ethtool.c ethtool: Allow zero-length register dumps again 2011-07-21 15:25:30 -07:00
fib_rules.c fib_rules: fix unresolved_rules counting 2011-10-19 19:17:41 -04:00
filter.c bug.h: Move ratelimit warn interfaces to ratelimit.h 2011-05-26 15:00:31 -04:00
flow.c net: Handle different key sizes between address families in flow cache 2011-09-16 17:47:28 -04:00
gen_estimator.c net,rcu: convert call_rcu(__gen_kill_estimator) to kfree_rcu() 2011-05-07 22:50:57 -07:00
gen_stats.c net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:55 -07:00
iovec.c net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX. 2010-10-28 11:47:52 -07:00
kmap_skb.h
link_watch.c net: allow netif_carrier to be called safely from IRQ 2011-07-22 17:01:14 -07:00
Makefile net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. 2011-08-06 18:33:19 -07:00
neighbour.c arp: fix rcu lockdep splat in arp_process() 2011-08-24 17:55:00 -07:00
net_namespace.c rtnl: provide link dump consistency info 2011-07-01 15:39:53 -07:00
net-sysfs.c net: remove /sys/class/net/*/features 2011-07-14 14:45:15 -07:00
net-sysfs.h xps: Add CONFIG_XPS 2010-11-28 18:24:14 -08:00
net-traces.c core: add tracepoints for queueing skb to rcvbuf 2011-06-21 16:06:10 -07:00
netevent.c net/core: EXPORT_SYMBOL cleanups 2010-07-12 12:57:55 -07:00
netpoll.c netpoll: fix incorrect access to skb data in __netpoll_rx 2011-08-26 12:49:04 -04:00
pktgen.c net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags 2011-07-27 22:39:30 -07:00
request_sock.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-12-08 13:47:38 -08:00
rtnetlink.c rtnl: provide link dump consistency info 2011-07-01 15:39:53 -07:00
scm.c scm: Capture the full credentials of the scm sender 2011-08-11 05:52:57 -07:00
secure_seq.c net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5. 2011-08-06 18:33:19 -07:00
skbuff.c net: copy userspace buffers on device forwarding 2011-09-15 14:49:44 -04:00
sock.c Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 into for-davem 2011-07-08 11:03:36 -04:00
stream.c net: Fix the condition passed to sk_wait_event() 2010-10-03 20:41:32 -07:00
sysctl_net_core.c net: Kill ratelimit.h dependency in linux/net.h 2011-05-27 13:41:33 -04:00
timestamping.c net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps 2011-10-24 02:54:50 -04:00
user_dma.c net/core/user_dma.c: Use frag list abstraction interfaces. 2009-06-09 00:19:10 -07:00
utils.c net: Kill ratelimit.h dependency in linux/net.h 2011-05-27 13:41:33 -04:00