This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fq_codel: fix a use-after-free to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fq_codel-fix-a-use-after-free.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Sep 26 11:13:07 PDT 2015 From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 12:30:07 -0700 Subject: fq_codel: fix a use-after-free From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 052cbda41fdc243a8d40cce7ab3a6327b4b2887e ] Fixes: 25331d6ce42b ("net: sched: implement qstat helper routines") Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cwang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_fq_codel.c @@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ static unsigned int fq_codel_drop(struct skb = dequeue_head(flow); len = qdisc_pkt_len(skb); q->backlogs[idx] -= len; - kfree_skb(skb); sch->q.qlen--; qdisc_qstats_drop(sch); qdisc_qstats_backlog_dec(sch, skb); + kfree_skb(skb); flow->dropped++; return idx; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/fq_codel-fix-a-use-after-free.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html