From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: [PATCH] Fix X.25 use after free. Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 15:01:10 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20030805150110.0e2753ab.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Henner Eisen , "David S. Miller" Cc: linux-x25@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com The conversion from cli/sti to locking in X.25 must not have been tested on a real SMP with memory debugging enabled. It OOPS right away if I do: modprobe x25; ifconfig -a The problem is that it dereferences the socket after it has already been freed. The fix for this is to make the call to sock_put, later in x25_destroy_socket do the free. Also, need a go to avoid references in x25_release. This patch is against 2.6.0-test2. diff -urNp -X dontdiff net-2.5/net/x25/af_x25.c linux-2.5-net/net/x25/af_x25.c --- net-2.5/net/x25/af_x25.c 2003-08-01 11:12:02.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.5-net/net/x25/af_x25.c 2003-08-05 12:14:42.000000000 -0700 @@ -350,8 +350,11 @@ void x25_destroy_socket(struct sock *sk) sk->sk_timer.function = x25_destroy_timer; sk->sk_timer.data = (unsigned long)sk; add_timer(&sk->sk_timer); - } else - sk_free(sk); + } else { + /* drop last reference so sock_put will free */ + __sock_put(sk); + } + release_sock(sk); sock_put(sk); } @@ -553,7 +556,7 @@ static int x25_release(struct socket *so case X25_STATE_2: x25_disconnect(sk, 0, 0, 0); x25_destroy_socket(sk); - break; + goto out; case X25_STATE_1: case X25_STATE_3: