From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Yuejie Shi <syjcnss@gmail.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <timo.teras@iki.fi>,
<herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_key: Add lock to key dump
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 08:39:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170404063931.GV5092@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1490944220-578-1-git-send-email-syjcnss@gmail.com>
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 03:10:20PM +0800, Yuejie Shi wrote:
> A dump may come in the middle of another dump, modifying its dump
> structure members. This race condition will result in NULL pointer
> dereference in kernel. So add a lock to prevent that race.
>
> Fixes: 83321d6b9872 ("[AF_KEY]: Dump SA/SP entries non-atomically")
> Signed-off-by: Yuejie Shi <syjcnss@gmail.com>
Applied, thanks a lot!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-04 6:40 UTC|newest]
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2017-03-31 7:10 [PATCH] af_key: Add lock to key dump Yuejie Shi
2017-04-04 6:39 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
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