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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netlink: fix races after skb queueing
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 04:21:44 -0400 (EDT)
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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.