1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
index e2077a3aa8c0..6460233407c7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
@@ -1307,7 +1307,8 @@ int cipso_v4_socket_setattr(const struct socket *sock,
 
         /* We can't use ip_options_get() directly because it makes a call to
          * ip_options_get_alloc() which allocates memory with GFP_KERNEL and
-         * we can't block here. */
+         * we won't always have CAP_NET_RAW even though we _always_ want to
+         * set the IPOPT_CIPSO option. */
         opt_len = (buf_len + 3) & ~3;
         opt = kzalloc(sizeof(*opt) + opt_len, GFP_ATOMIC);
         if (opt == NULL) {
@@ -1317,11 +1318,9 @@ int cipso_v4_socket_setattr(const struct socket *sock,
         memcpy(opt->__data, buf, buf_len);
         opt->optlen = opt_len;
         opt->is_data = 1;
+        opt->cipso = sizeof(struct iphdr);
         kfree(buf);
         buf = NULL;
-        ret_val = ip_options_compile(opt, NULL);
-        if (ret_val != 0)
-                goto socket_setattr_failure;
 
         sk_inet = inet_sk(sk);
         if (sk_inet->is_icsk) {