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[v3,net-next,4/5] ipv6: tcp: give socket pointer to control skbs

Message ID 20241010174817.1543642-5-edumazet@google.com (mailing list archive)
State New
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series tcp: add skb->sk to more control packets | expand

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Commit Message

Eric Dumazet Oct. 10, 2024, 5:48 p.m. UTC
tcp_v6_send_response() send orphaned 'control packets'.

These are RST packets and also ACK packets sent from TIME_WAIT.

Some eBPF programs would prefer to have a meaningful skb->sk
pointer as much as possible.

This means that TCP can now attach TIME_WAIT sockets to outgoing
skbs.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
---
 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 7634c0be6acbdb67bb378cc81bdbf184552d2afc..597920061a3a061a878bf0f7a1b03ac4898918a9 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -967,6 +967,9 @@  static void tcp_v6_send_response(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, u32
 	}
 
 	if (sk) {
+		/* unconstify the socket only to attach it to buff with care. */
+		skb_set_owner_edemux(buff, (struct sock *)sk);
+
 		if (sk->sk_state == TCP_TIME_WAIT)
 			mark = inet_twsk(sk)->tw_mark;
 		else