From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bazsi@balabit.hu
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, hidden@sch.bme.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [TPROXY] fixes a possible read from an invalid location in the socket match
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:54:00 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081207.235400.112829427.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228675414.15263.102.camel@bzorp.balabit>
From: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:43:34 +0100
> I've found this while looking for an unrelated issue. I guess this should
> still go in 2.6.28, if possible.
>
> TIME_WAIT sockets need to be handled specially, and the socket match
> casted inet_timewait_sock instances to inet_sock, which are not
> compatible.
>
> Handle this special case by checking sk->sk_state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Balazs Scheidler <bazsi@balabit.hu>
Applied, thanks.
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2008-12-07 18:43 [PATCH] [TPROXY] fixes a possible read from an invalid location in the socket match Balazs Scheidler
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