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Date:	Mon, 12 Aug 2013 22:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevich@...il.com
Cc:	dborkman@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3] net: sctp: sctp_transport_destroy{,_rcu}: fix
 potential pointer corruption

From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 10:42:37 -0400

> On 08/09/2013 10:25 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> Probably this one is quite unlikely to be triggered, but it's more
>> safe
>> to do the call_rcu() at the end after we have dropped the reference on
>> the asoc and freed sctp packet chunks. The reason why is because in
>> sctp_transport_destroy_rcu() the transport is being kfree()'d, and if
>> we're unlucky enough we could run into corrupted pointers. Probably
>> that's more of theoretical nature, but it's safer to have this simple
>> fix.
>>
>> Introduced by commit 8c98653f ("sctp: sctp_close: fix release of
>> bindings
>> for deferred call_rcu's"). I also did the 8c98653f regression test and
>> it's fine that way.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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