[PATCH 3.11 049/137] appletalk: Fix socket referencing in skb

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Aug 18 09:31:50 UTC 2014


3.11.10.15 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin at gmail.com>

commit 36beddc272c111689f3042bf3d10a64d8a805f93 upstream.

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 at gmail.com> for correct solution.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79441
Reported-by: Ed Martin <edman007 at edman007.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Utkin <andrey.krieger.utkin at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/appletalk/ddp.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/appletalk/ddp.c b/net/appletalk/ddp.c
index 7d424ac6e760..43e875c84429 100644
--- a/net/appletalk/ddp.c
+++ b/net/appletalk/ddp.c
@@ -1489,8 +1489,6 @@ static int atalk_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 		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 *iocb, struct socket *sock, struct msghdr
 	if (!skb)
 		goto out;
 
-	skb->sk = sk;
 	skb_reserve(skb, ddp_dl->header_length);
 	skb_reserve(skb, dev->hard_header_len);
 	skb->dev = dev;
-- 
1.9.1





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