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authorDaniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>2008-01-19 02:52:35 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-01-28 18:08:04 -0500
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[IPV6]: Fix ip6_frag ctl
Alexey Dobriyan reported an oops when unsharing the network indefinitely inside a loop. This is because the ip6_frag is not per namespace while the ctls are. That happens at the fragment timer expiration: inet_frag_secret_rebuild function is called and this one restarts the timer using the value stored inside the sysctl field. "mod_timer(&f->secret_timer, now + f->ctl->secret_interval);" When the network is unshared, ip6_frag.ctl is initialized with the new sysctl instances, but ip6_frag has only one instance. A race in this case will appear because f->ctl can be modified during the read access in the timer callback. Until the ip6_frag is not per namespace, I discard the assignation to the ctl field of ip6_frags in ip6_frag_sysctl_init when the network namespace is not the init net. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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