This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled appletalk: Fix socket referencing in skb to the 3.14-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: appletalk-fix-socket-referencing-in-skb.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 Jul 26 10:08:04 PDT 2014 From: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 23:22:50 +0300 Subject: appletalk: Fix socket referencing in skb From: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 36beddc272c111689f3042bf3d10a64d8a805f93 ] Setting just skb->sk without taking its reference and setting a destructor is invalid. However, in the places where this was done, skb is used in a way not requiring skb->sk setting. So dropping the setting of skb->sk. Thanks to Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> for correct solution. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79441 Reported-by: Ed Martin <edman007@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/appletalk/ddp.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/appletalk/ddp.c +++ b/net/appletalk/ddp.c @@ -1489,8 +1489,6 @@ static int atalk_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb goto drop; /* Queue packet (standard) */ - skb->sk = sock; - if (sock_queue_rcv_skb(sock, skb) < 0) goto drop; @@ -1644,7 +1642,6 @@ static int atalk_sendmsg(struct kiocb *i if (!skb) goto out; - skb->sk = sk; skb_reserve(skb, ddp_dl->header_length); skb_reserve(skb, dev->hard_header_len); skb->dev = dev; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from andrey.krieger.utkin@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/appletalk-fix-socket-referencing-in-skb.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