linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 034/258] sctp: Fix SKB list traversal in sctp_intl_store

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Date:   Mon, 28 Jan 2019 13:04:59 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 034/258] sctp: Fix SKB list traversal in
 sctp_intl_store_reasm().

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 03:04:34PM -0200, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 348bbc25c40844c5efa083a3842c7f53d70a815e ]
>>
>> To be fully correct, an iterator has an undefined value when something
>> like skb_queue_walk() naturally terminates.
>>
>> This will actually matter when SKB queues are converted over to
>> list_head.
>>
>> Formalize what this code ends up doing with the current
>> implementation.
>
>I don't think this patch is really needed for -stable without the SKB
>queue convertion, but okay.

I'll drop it. I'm not sure why this sctp patch wasn't filtered out as
davem deals with net/. Sorry for the noise.

--
Thanks,
Sasha