From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb() Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:08:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120406.050814.733835930459999701.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1333702150.5312.23.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:36157 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754765Ab2DFJIU (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2012 05:08:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1333702150.5312.23.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet 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 Applied and queued up for -stable. Thanks for following up on this.