From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrey Utkin Subject: [PATCH] appletalk: Fix socket referencing in skb Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:22:50 +0300 Message-ID: <1404764570-24120-1-git-send-email-andrey.krieger.utkin@gmail.com> Cc: acme@ghostprotocols.net, davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, Andrey Utkin To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Setting just skb->sk without taking its reference and setting a destructor is invalid. However, in the places where this was done, skb is used in a way not requiring skb->sk setting. So dropping the setting of skb->sk. Thanks to Eric Dumazet for correct solution. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79441 Reported-by: Ed Martin Signed-off-by: Andrey Utkin --- net/appletalk/ddp.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/appletalk/ddp.c b/net/appletalk/ddp.c index 01a1082..bfcf6be 100644 --- a/net/appletalk/ddp.c +++ b/net/appletalk/ddp.c @@ -1489,8 +1489,6 @@ static int atalk_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev, goto drop; /* Queue packet (standard) */ - skb->sk = sock; - if (sock_queue_rcv_skb(sock, skb) < 0) goto drop; @@ -1644,7 +1642,6 @@ static int atalk_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, struct msghdr if (!skb) goto out; - skb->sk = sk; skb_reserve(skb, ddp_dl->header_length); skb_reserve(skb, dev->hard_header_len); skb->dev = dev; -- 1.8.3.2