This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled unix/caif: sk_socket can disappear when state is unlocked 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: unix-caif-sk_socket-can-disappear-when-state-is-unlocked.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 Jun 13 09:49:06 PDT 2015 From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 08:22:19 -0700 Subject: unix/caif: sk_socket can disappear when state is unlocked From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b48732e4a48d80ed4a14812f0bab09560846514e ] got a rare NULL pointer dereference in clear_bit Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---- v2: switch to sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD) and added net/caif/caif_socket.c v3: return -ECONNRESET in upstream caller of wait function for SOCK_DEAD Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/caif/caif_socket.c | 8 ++++++++ net/unix/af_unix.c | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) --- a/net/caif/caif_socket.c +++ b/net/caif/caif_socket.c @@ -332,6 +332,10 @@ static long caif_stream_data_wait(struct release_sock(sk); timeo = schedule_timeout(timeo); lock_sock(sk); + + if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) + break; + clear_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA, &sk->sk_socket->flags); } @@ -376,6 +380,10 @@ static int caif_stream_recvmsg(struct ki struct sk_buff *skb; lock_sock(sk); + if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) { + err = -ECONNRESET; + goto unlock; + } skb = skb_dequeue(&sk->sk_receive_queue); caif_check_flow_release(sk); --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c @@ -1893,6 +1893,10 @@ static long unix_stream_data_wait(struct unix_state_unlock(sk); timeo = freezable_schedule_timeout(timeo); unix_state_lock(sk); + + if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) + break; + clear_bit(SOCK_ASYNC_WAITDATA, &sk->sk_socket->flags); } @@ -1957,6 +1961,10 @@ static int unix_stream_recvmsg(struct ki struct sk_buff *skb, *last; unix_state_lock(sk); + if (sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD)) { + err = -ECONNRESET; + goto unlock; + } last = skb = skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue); again: if (skb == NULL) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/unix-caif-sk_socket-can-disappear-when-state-is-unlocked.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