[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 180/180] ipv4: Missing sk_nulls_node_init() in ping_unhash().

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu May 7 09:46:29 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt11 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>

commit a134f083e79fb4c3d0a925691e732c56911b4326 upstream.

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 at linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Wen Xu <hotdog3645 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ping.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ping.c b/net/ipv4/ping.c
index 45d5bc0ad86c..30d0a64be413 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ping.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c
@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ 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;




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