This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ping: Fix race in free in receive path
to the 3.10-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: ping-fix-race-in-free-in-receive-path.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Feb 12 09:26:20 HKT 2015 From: "subas...@codeaurora.org" <subas...@codeaurora.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 22:26:02 +0000 Subject: ping: Fix race in free in receive path From: "subas...@codeaurora.org" <subas...@codeaurora.org> [ Upstream commit fc752f1f43c1c038a2c6ae58cc739ebb5953ccb0 ] An exception is seen in ICMP ping receive path where the skb destructor sock_rfree() tries to access a freed socket. This happens because ping_rcv() releases socket reference with sock_put() and this internally frees up the socket. Later icmp_rcv() will try to free the skb and as part of this, skb destructor is called and which leads to a kernel panic as the socket is freed already in ping_rcv(). -->|exception -007|sk_mem_uncharge -007|sock_rfree -008|skb_release_head_state -009|skb_release_all -009|__kfree_skb -010|kfree_skb -011|icmp_rcv -012|ip_local_deliver_finish Fix this incorrect free by cloning this skb and processing this cloned skb instead. This patch was suggested by Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subas...@codeaurora.org> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- net/ipv4/ping.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv4/ping.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c @@ -720,8 +720,11 @@ void ping_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb) sk = ping_v4_lookup(net, saddr, daddr, ntohs(icmph->un.echo.id), skb->dev->ifindex); if (sk != NULL) { + struct sk_buff *skb2 = skb_clone(skb, GFP_ATOMIC); + pr_debug("rcv on socket %p\n", sk); - ping_queue_rcv_skb(sk, skb_get(skb)); + if (skb2) + ping_queue_rcv_skb(sk, skb2); sock_put(sk); return; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from subas...@codeaurora.org are queue-3.10/ping-fix-race-in-free-in-receive-path.patch queue-3.10/net-rps-fix-cpu-unplug.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html