From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Cc: Chas Williams <3chas3@gmail.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] atm: fix use-after-free in sigd_put_skb()
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:10:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260612161051.2d4df09b@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260609162107.2865310-2-bestswngs@gmail.com>
On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:21:08 +0800 Weiming Shi wrote:
> sigd_put_skb() delivers a signalling message to the daemon socket named
> by the global @sigd pointer, ending in a call to sk_data_ready(). It
> reads @sigd with no synchronisation, so it can race with a close of the
> daemon socket: sigd_close() clears @sigd and the socket is then torn
> down and freed.
Hm, we intend to only retain the portions of the ATM stack which are
still used in PPPoATM and ADSL. I don't believe the signaling stuff
is used there. I will post a patch to delete this code.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-12 23:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-09 16:21 [PATCH v2] atm: fix use-after-free in sigd_put_skb() Weiming Shi
2026-06-11 16:26 ` Weiming Shi
2026-06-12 23:10 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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