This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect to the 4.9-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: tcp-release-sk_frag.page-in-tcp_disconnect.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Feb 6 12:42:23 PST 2018 From: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:40:41 +0800 Subject: tcp: release sk_frag.page in tcp_disconnect From: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 9b42d55a66d388e4dd5550107df051a9637564fc ] socket can be disconnected and gets transformed back to a listening socket, if sk_frag.page is not released, which will be cloned into a new socket by sk_clone_lock, but the reference count of this page is increased, lead to a use after free or double free issue Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/tcp.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c +++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c @@ -2316,6 +2316,12 @@ int tcp_disconnect(struct sock *sk, int WARN_ON(inet->inet_num && !icsk->icsk_bind_hash); + if (sk->sk_frag.page) { + put_page(sk->sk_frag.page); + sk->sk_frag.page = NULL; + sk->sk_frag.offset = 0; + } + sk->sk_error_report(sk); return err; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lirongqing@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/tcp-release-sk_frag.page-in-tcp_disconnect.patch