From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: invalid socket structure with ip_early_demux Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:25:17 -0800 Message-ID: <1359771917.30177.52.camel@edumazet-glaptop> References: <510C752F.5010102@codeaurora.org> <1359771370.30177.50.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org To: Steve Muckle Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1359771370.30177.50.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 18:16 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote: > skb->sk might be a TIMEWAIT socket. > > Therefore, you cant blindly use skb->sk->sk_socket > A fix would be to add after : sk = skb->sk; the following code : if (sk && sk->sk_state == TCP_TIME_WAIT) sk = NULL;