Re: Regression, bisected: reference leak with IPSec since ~2.6.31

[Jarek Poplawski]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:21:00AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 21 septembre 2010 ?? 09:12 +0000, Jarek Poplawski a écrit :
> > On 2010-09-20 23:31, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > ...
> > > @@ -510,11 +509,13 @@ int ip_fragment(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*output)(struct sk_buff *))
> > >  				goto slow_path;
> > >  
> > >  			BUG_ON(frag->sk);
> > > -			if (skb->sk) {
> > > +		}
> > > +		if (skb->sk) {
> > > +			skb_walk_frags(skb, frag) {
> > >  				frag->sk = skb->sk;
> > >  				frag->destructor = sock_wfree;
> > 
> > Nice catch, but it seems doing it in the first loop as now, and
> > reverting changes before goto slow_path might be more optimal here.
> > 
> 
> I thought of this, but found this function already very complex.
> 
> Once everything is in cpu caches, the added loop is very cheap.

I hope you're right with this.

> 
> I liked the :
> 
> <check everything without changing state>
> if something wrong
> 	goto slow_path
> else
> 	<OK, lets do destructive things>
> 

But it's an optimization of the "unlikely" case btw. ;-)

Jarek P.
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