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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Subject: Re: 2.6.37-rc8: Reported regressions from 2.6.36
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:11:06 +0100
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On Monday, January 10, 2011, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:59:38 +0100 (CET)
> 
> > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24592
> > Subject		: 2.6.37-rc5: NULL pointer oops in selinux_socket_unix_stream_connect
> > Submitter	: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
> > Date		: 2010-12-08 21:09 (22 days old)
> > Message-ID	: <4CFFF3F3.90100@goop.org>
> > References	: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129184256629712&w=2
> 
> This bug is intended to be fixed by:
> 
> commit 3610cda53f247e176bcbb7a7cca64bc53b12acdb
> Author: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Date:   Wed Jan 5 15:38:53 2011 -0800
> 
>     af_unix: Avoid socket->sk NULL OOPS in stream connect security hooks.
>     
>     unix_release() can asynchornously set socket->sk to NULL, and
>     it does so without holding the unix_state_lock() on "other"
>     during stream connects.
>     
>     However, the reverse mapping, sk->sk_socket, is only transitioned
>     to NULL under the unix_state_lock().
>     
>     Therefore make the security hooks follow the reverse mapping instead
>     of the forward mapping.
>     
>     Reported-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
>     Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> 

OK, thanks for the info, closing.

Rafael