From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix races after skb queueing
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:21:44 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120406.042144.742495137515648292.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333700266.5312.19.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:17:46 +0200
> As soon as an skb is queued into socket receive_queue, another thread
> can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk
> use after free.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Good catch Eric.
Applied and queued up for -stable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-06 8:21 UTC|newest]
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2012-04-06 8:17 [PATCH] netlink: fix races after skb queueing Eric Dumazet
2012-04-06 8:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-04-06 8:34 ` Eric Dumazet
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