From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit a134f083e79fb4c3d0a925691e732c56911b4326 ] If we don't do that, then the poison value is left in the ->pprev backlink. This can cause crashes if we do a disconnect, followed by a connect(). Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Wen Xu <hotdog3645@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/ping.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/ipv4/ping.c b/net/ipv4/ping.c index a9f8e66f6dad..54012b8c0ef9 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/ping.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ void ping_unhash(struct sock *sk) if (sk_hashed(sk)) { write_lock_bh(&ping_table.lock); hlist_nulls_del(&sk->sk_nulls_node); + sk_nulls_node_init(&sk->sk_nulls_node); sock_put(sk); isk->inet_num = 0; isk->inet_sport = 0; -- 2.3.5 -- 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