netdev - Re: net: Fix skb_set_peeked use-after-free bug

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Date:	Thu, 06 Aug 2015 21:56:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	bblanco@...mgrid.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru
Subject: Re: net: Fix skb_set_peeked use-after-free bug

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 15:42:47 +0800

> The commit 738ac1ebb96d02e0d23bc320302a6ea94c612dec ("net: Clone
> skb before setting peeked flag") introduced a use-after-free bug
> in skb_recv_datagram.  This is because skb_set_peeked may create
> a new skb and free the existing one.  As it stands the caller will
> continue to use the old freed skb.
> 
> This patch fixes it by making skb_set_peeked return the new skb
> (or the old one if unchanged).
> 
> Fixes: 738ac1ebb96d ("net: Clone skb before setting peeked flag")
> Reported-by: Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, and since the commit this is fixing is queued up for -stable
I'll of course queue this up too.
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