From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Guillaume Nault , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH 4.2 007/124] ppp: fix pppoe_dev deletion condition in pppoe_release() Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 09:54:57 -0500 Message-Id: <20151207144920.042323135@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20151207144919.656035367@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20151207144919.656035367@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Guillaume Nault [ Upstream commit 1acea4f6ce1b1c0941438aca75dd2e5c6b09db60 ] We can't rely on PPPOX_ZOMBIE to decide whether to clear po->pppoe_dev. PPPOX_ZOMBIE can be set by pppoe_disc_rcv() even when po->pppoe_dev is NULL. So we have no guarantee that (sk->sk_state & PPPOX_ZOMBIE) implies (po->pppoe_dev != NULL). Since we're releasing a PPPoE socket, we want to release the pppoe_dev if it exists and reset sk_state to PPPOX_DEAD, no matter the previous value of sk_state. So we can just check for po->pppoe_dev and avoid any assumption on sk->sk_state. Fixes: 2b018d57ff18 ("pppoe: drop PPPOX_ZOMBIEs in pppoe_release") Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c @@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ static int pppoe_release(struct socket * po = pppox_sk(sk); - if (sk->sk_state & (PPPOX_CONNECTED | PPPOX_BOUND | PPPOX_ZOMBIE)) { + if (po->pppoe_dev) { dev_put(po->pppoe_dev); po->pppoe_dev = NULL; }