This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ppp: fix pppoe_dev deletion condition in pppoe_release() to the 4.2-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: ppp-fix-pppoe_dev-deletion-condition-in-pppoe_release.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.2 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 Tue Nov 17 14:34:38 PST 2015 From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:57:10 +0200 Subject: ppp: fix pppoe_dev deletion condition in pppoe_release() From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ 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 <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- 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; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.2/ppp-fix-pppoe_dev-deletion-condition-in-pppoe_release.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