From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb()
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:08:14 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120406.050814.733835930459999701.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1333702150.5312.23.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 10:49:10 +0200
> As soon as an skb is queued into socket error 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>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
Thanks for following up on this.
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2012-04-06 8:49 [PATCH] net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb() Eric Dumazet
2012-04-06 9:08 ` David Miller [this message]
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