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authorVlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>2007-04-18 14:11:06 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-04-18 14:16:09 -0700
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[SCTP]: Do not interleave non-fragments when in partial delivery
The way partial delivery is currently implemnted, it is possible to intereleave a message (either from another steram, or unordered) that is not part of partial delivery process. The only way to this is for a message to not be a fragment and be 'in order' or unorderd for a given stream. This will result in bypassing the reassembly/ordering queues where things live duing partial delivery, and the message will be delivered to the socket in the middle of partial delivery. This is a two-fold problem, in that: 1. the app now must check the stream-id and flags which it may not be doing. 2. this clearing partial delivery state from the association and results in ulp hanging. This patch is a band-aid over a much bigger problem in that we don't do stream interleave. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/sctp/ulpqueue.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sctp/ulpqueue.c b/net/sctp/ulpqueue.c
index bfb197e37da3..b29e3e4b72c9 100644
--- a/net/sctp/ulpqueue.c
+++ b/net/sctp/ulpqueue.c
@@ -190,7 +190,14 @@ int sctp_ulpq_tail_event(struct sctp_ulpq *ulpq, struct sctp_ulpevent *event)
if (!sctp_sk(sk)->pd_mode) {
queue = &sk->sk_receive_queue;
} else if (ulpq->pd_mode) {
- if (event->msg_flags & MSG_NOTIFICATION)
+ /* If the association is in partial delivery, we
+ * need to finish delivering the partially processed
+ * packet before passing any other data. This is
+ * because we don't truly support stream interleaving.
+ */
+ if ((event->msg_flags & MSG_NOTIFICATION) ||
+ (SCTP_DATA_NOT_FRAG ==
+ (event->msg_flags & SCTP_DATA_FRAG_MASK)))
queue = &sctp_sk(sk)->pd_lobby;
else {
clear_pd = event->msg_flags & MSG_EOR;