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-rw-r--r--net/core/sock.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index 98171ddd7e7d..96e00b08698f 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
*
* Version: $Id: sock.c,v 1.117 2002/02/01 22:01:03 davem Exp $
*
- * Authors: Ross Biro, <bir7@leland.Stanford.Edu>
+ * Authors: Ross Biro
* Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
* Florian La Roche, <flla@stud.uni-sb.de>
* Alan Cox, <A.Cox@swansea.ac.uk>
@@ -635,7 +635,11 @@ struct sock *sk_alloc(int family, int priority, struct proto *prot, int zero_it)
if (zero_it) {
memset(sk, 0, prot->obj_size);
sk->sk_family = family;
- sk->sk_prot = prot;
+ /*
+ * See comment in struct sock definition to understand
+ * why we need sk_prot_creator -acme
+ */
+ sk->sk_prot = sk->sk_prot_creator = prot;
sock_lock_init(sk);
}
@@ -654,7 +658,7 @@ struct sock *sk_alloc(int family, int priority, struct proto *prot, int zero_it)
void sk_free(struct sock *sk)
{
struct sk_filter *filter;
- struct module *owner = sk->sk_prot->owner;
+ struct module *owner = sk->sk_prot_creator->owner;
if (sk->sk_destruct)
sk->sk_destruct(sk);
@@ -672,8 +676,8 @@ void sk_free(struct sock *sk)
__FUNCTION__, atomic_read(&sk->sk_omem_alloc));
security_sk_free(sk);
- if (sk->sk_prot->slab != NULL)
- kmem_cache_free(sk->sk_prot->slab, sk);
+ if (sk->sk_prot_creator->slab != NULL)
+ kmem_cache_free(sk->sk_prot_creator->slab, sk);
else
kfree(sk);
module_put(owner);