On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:21:06AM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> It's just silly to hold the skb destructor argument around inside
> skb->cb[] as we currently do in SCTP.
>
> Though this has been around forever, I'm inclined to say that prior
> to 4c3a5bdae293 ("sctp: Don't charge for data in sndbuf again when
> transmitting packet") this may well have caused issues as doing so
> violates the cb[] usage accross layers; before 4c3a5bdae293-times,
> we have charged twice for data, and when destructor kicks in, cb[]
> could have been overwritten already by someone else.
>
> Nowadays, we're sort of cheating on data accounting in the sense
> that due to commit 4c3a5bdae293, we orphan the skb already in the
> SCTP output path, 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 actually a big
> candidate for future rework, imho.
>
> Anyhow, lets keep the chunk in destructor_arg, as this is the actual
> purpose for it so that in future, we don't run into trouble.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 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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Seems reasonable
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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