From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sds@epoch.ncsc.mil
Subject: Re: [SELINUX/NET] Fix sock_orphan race.
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:05:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615210531.2d367db9.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xine.LNX.4.44.0406151012030.27745-100000@thoron.boston.redhat.com>
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:18:59 -0400 (EDT)
James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> wrote:
> The patch below fixes a race between sock_orphan() and
> selinux_socket_sock_rcv_skb() which can lead to a null pointer deref oops
> under heavy load. The sk_callback_lock is used in the patch to
> synchronize access to the incoming socket's inode security state.
>
> This patch has been under test in the Fedora kernel for over a month
> without incident.
Applied, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-16 4:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-15 14:18 [SELINUX/NET] Fix sock_orphan race James Morris
2004-06-16 4:05 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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