Re: [PATCH 1/2] dccp: ccid: move timers to struct dccp_sock

Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.dccp,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <20201109141553.30e9d502@kicinski-fedora-PC1C0HJN.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>
On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 18:31:34 -0300 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> > Which paths are those (my memory of this code is waning)? I thought
> > disconnect is only called from the user space side (shutdown syscall).
> > The only other way to terminate the connection is to close the socket,
> > which Eric already fixed by postponing the destruction of ccid in that
> > case.  
> 
> dccp_v4_do_rcv -> dccp_rcv_established -> dccp_parse_options ->
> 	dccp_feat_parse_options -> dccp_feat_handle_nn_established ->
> 	dccp_feat_activate -> __dccp_feat_activate -> dccp_hdlr_ccid ->
> 	ccid_hc_tx_delete

Well, that's not a disconnect path.

There should be no CCID on a disconnected socket, tho, right? Otherwise
if we can switch from one active CCID to another then reusing a single
timer in struct dccp_sock for both is definitely not safe as I
explained in my initial email.
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