netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tun: use sk_fullsock() before reading sk->sk

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Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2015 19:46:21 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, willemb@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tun: use sk_fullsock() before reading
 sk->sk_tsflags

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 15:42:21 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> timewait or request sockets are small and do not contain sk->sk_tsflags
> 
> Without this fix, we might read garbage, and crash later in
> 
> __skb_complete_tx_timestamp()
>  -> sock_queue_err_skb()
> 
> (These pseudo sockets do not have an error queue either)
> 
> Fixes: ca6fb0651883 ("tcp: attach SYNACK messages to request sockets instead of listener")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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