It's just silly to hold the skb destructor argument around inside
skb->cb[] as we currently do in SCTP.
Nowadays, we're sort of cheating on data accounting in the sense
that due to commit 4c3a5bdae293 ("sctp: Don't charge for data in
sndbuf again when transmitting packet"), we orphan the skb already
in the SCTP output path, i.e. giving back charged data memory, and
use a different destructor only to make sure the sk doesn't vanish
on skb destruction time. Thus, cb[] is still valid here as we
operate within the SCTP layer. (It's generally actually a big
candidate for future rework, imho.)
However, storing the destructor in the cb[] can easily cause issues
should an non sctp_packet_set_owner_w()'ed skb ever escape the SCTP
layer, since cb[] may get overwritten by lower layers and thus can
corrupt the chunk pointer. There are no such issues at present,
but lets keep the chunk in destructor_arg, as this is the actual
purpose for it.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
v1->v2:
- Only reworded commit message to make it more clear
net/sctp/socket.c | 12 ++++--------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index 2120292..85e0b65 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ static inline void sctp_set_owner_w(struct sctp_chunk *chunk)
chunk->skb->destructor = sctp_wfree;
/* Save the chunk pointer in skb for sctp_wfree to use later. */
- *((struct sctp_chunk **)(chunk->skb->cb)) = chunk;
+ skb_shinfo(chunk->skb)->destructor_arg = chunk;
asoc->sndbuf_used += SCTP_DATA_SNDSIZE(chunk) +
sizeof(struct sk_buff) +
@@ -6870,14 +6870,10 @@ static void sctp_wake_up_waiters(struct sock *sk,
*/
static void sctp_wfree(struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- struct sctp_association *asoc;
- struct sctp_chunk *chunk;
- struct sock *sk;
+ struct sctp_chunk *chunk = skb_shinfo(skb)->destructor_arg;
+ struct sctp_association *asoc = chunk->asoc;
+ struct sock *sk = asoc->base.sk;
- /* Get the saved chunk pointer. */
- chunk = *((struct sctp_chunk **)(skb->cb));
- asoc = chunk->asoc;
- sk = asoc->base.sk;
asoc->sndbuf_used -= SCTP_DATA_SNDSIZE(chunk) +
sizeof(struct sk_buff) +
sizeof(struct sctp_chunk);
--
1.7.11.7
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