Re: [PATCH] tun: don't zeroize sock->file on detach

From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <redacted>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:50:40 +0400

This is a fix for bug, introduced in 3.4 kernel by commit
1ab5ecb90cb6a3df1476e052f76a6e8f6511cb3d, which, among other things, replaced
simple sock_put() by sk_release_kernel(). Below is sequence, which leads to
oops for non-persistent devices:

tun_chr_close()
tun_detach()				<== tun->socket.file = NULL
tun_free_netdev()
sk_release_sock()
sock_release(sock->file == NULL)
iput(SOCK_INODE(sock))			<== dereference on NULL pointer

This patch just removes zeroing of socket's file from __tun_detach().
sock_release() will do this.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Ruan Zhijie <redacted>
Tested-by: Ruan Zhijie <redacted>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <redacted>

Applied, thanks.