Thread (70 messages) 70 messages, 3 authors, 2015-05-12

[PATCH 4.0 06/72] ipv4: Missing sk_nulls_node_init() in ping_unhash().

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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2015-05-11 18:58:24
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1 review trailer.

4.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

[ Upstream commit a134f083e79fb4c3d0a925691e732c56911b4326 ]

If we don't do that, then the poison value is left in the ->pprev
backlink.

This can cause crashes if we do a disconnect, followed by a connect().

Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Wen Xu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/ipv4/ping.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/ipv4/ping.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ void ping_unhash(struct sock *sk)
 	if (sk_hashed(sk)) {
 		write_lock_bh(&ping_table.lock);
 		hlist_nulls_del(&sk->sk_nulls_node);
+		sk_nulls_node_init(&sk->sk_nulls_node);
 		sock_put(sk);
 		isk->inet_num = 0;
 		isk->inet_sport = 0;

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