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authorTommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net>2005-05-19 12:46:59 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2005-05-19 12:46:59 -0700
commitdb61ecc3352d72513c1b07805bd6f760e30c001b (patch)
treec85af775fc7eccbb12501e0a8d42cd5d284e494d /net/netlink
parent1eda339e76a9aac05883c548028bf91aed734783 (diff)
downloadlinux-db61ecc3352d72513c1b07805bd6f760e30c001b.tar.gz
[NETLINK]: Fix race with recvmsg().
This bug causes: assertion (!atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc)) failed at net/netlink/af_netlink.c (122) What's happening is that: 1) The skb is sent to socket 1. 2) Someone does a recvmsg on socket 1 and drops the ref on the skb. Note that the rmalloc is not returned at this point since the skb is still referenced. 3) The same skb is now sent to socket 2. This version of the fix resurrects the skb_orphan call that was moved out, last time we had 'shared-skb troubles'. It is practically a no-op in the common case, but still prevents the possible race with recvmsg. Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 733bf52cef3e7..b40c9a976969e 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ static __inline__ int netlink_broadcast_deliver(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff
if (atomic_read(&sk->sk_rmem_alloc) <= sk->sk_rcvbuf &&
!test_bit(0, &nlk->state)) {
+ skb_orphan(skb);
skb_set_owner_r(skb, sk);
skb_queue_tail(&sk->sk_receive_queue, skb);
sk->sk_data_ready(sk, skb->len);