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net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps
authorRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:49:15 +0000 (00:49 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:54:50 +0000 (02:54 -0400)
commit8a8d02a2a77f9b26bff8208f0bf48628fc8e284f
tree375ead604156d8a8afc5ecef8d76415e999ce903
parent25be9eb1e6d0c8d3482c38d03a6e7c18609465e1
net: hold sock reference while processing tx timestamps

The pair of functions,

 * skb_clone_tx_timestamp()
 * skb_complete_tx_timestamp()

were designed to allow timestamping in PHY devices. The first
function, called during the MAC driver's hard_xmit method, identifies
PTP protocol packets, clones them, and gives them to the PHY device
driver. The PHY driver may hold onto the packet and deliver it at a
later time using the second function, which adds the packet to the
socket's error queue.

As pointed out by Johannes, nothing prevents the socket from
disappearing while the cloned packet is sitting in the PHY driver
awaiting a timestamp. This patch fixes the issue by taking a reference
on the socket for each such packet. In addition, the comments
regarding the usage of these function are expanded to highlight the
rule that PHY drivers must use skb_complete_tx_timestamp() to release
the packet, in order to release the socket reference, too.

These functions first appeared in v2.6.36.

Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/phy.h
include/linux/skbuff.h
net/core/timestamping.c