This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: core: Prevent from dereferencing null pointer when releasing SKB
to the 3.18-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:
net-core-prevent-from-dereferencing-null-pointer-when-releasing-skb.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Thu Oct 5 10:58:04 CEST 2017
From: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 11:58:15 -0700
Subject: net: core: Prevent from dereferencing null pointer when releasing SKB
From: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 9899886d5e8ec5b343b1efe44f185a0e68dc6454 ]
Added NULL check to make __dev_kfree_skb_irq consistent with kfree
family of functions.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195289
Signed-off-by: Myungho Jung <mhjungk@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -2225,6 +2225,9 @@ void __dev_kfree_skb_irq(struct sk_buff
{
unsigned long flags;
+ if (unlikely(!skb))
+ return;
+
if (likely(atomic_read(&skb->users) == 1)) {
smp_rmb();
atomic_set(&skb->users, 0);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mhjungk@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/net-core-prevent-from-dereferencing-null-pointer-when-releasing-skb.patch