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net: fix a race in sock_queue_err_skb()

As soon as an skb is queued into socket error queue, another thread
can consume it, so we are not allowed to reference skb anymore, or risk
use after free.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Eric Dumazet 13 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 3 1
      net/core/skbuff.c

+ 3 - 1
net/core/skbuff.c

@@ -3161,6 +3161,8 @@ static void sock_rmem_free(struct sk_buff *skb)
  */
 int sock_queue_err_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
+	int len = skb->len;
+
 	if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) + skb->truesize >=
 	    (unsigned)sk->sk_rcvbuf)
 		return -ENOMEM;
@@ -3175,7 +3177,7 @@ int sock_queue_err_skb(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 	skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_error_queue, skb);
 	if (!sock_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD))
-		sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);
+		sk->sk_data_ready(sk, len);
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(sock_queue_err_skb);