From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:53:23 -0400 > When SCTP is done processing a duplicate cookie chunk, it tries > to delete a newly created association. For that, it has to set > the right association for the side-effect processing to work. > However, when it uses the SCTP_CMD_NEW_ASOC command, that performs > more work then really needed (like hashing the associationa and > assigning it an id) and there is no point to do that only to > delete the association as a next step. In fact, it also creates > an impossible condition where an association may be found by > the getsockopt() call, and that association is empty. This > causes a crash in some sctp getsockopts. > > The solution is rather simple. We simply use SCTP_CMD_SET_ASOC > command that doesn't have all the overhead and does exactly > what we need. > > Reported-by: Karl Heiss <kheiss@xxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Karl Heiss <kheiss@xxxxxxxxx> > CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
