netdev - Re: [PATCH] tun: don't zeroize sock->file on detach

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Date:	Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:16:39 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	skinsbursky@...allels.com
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, rick.jones2@...com,
	ycheng@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tun: don't zeroize sock->file on detach

From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:50:40 +0400

> This is a fix for bug, introduced in 3.4 kernel by commit
> 1ab5ecb90cb6a3df1476e052f76a6e8f6511cb3d, which, among other things, replaced
> simple sock_put() by sk_release_kernel(). Below is sequence, which leads to
> oops for non-persistent devices:
> 
> tun_chr_close()
> tun_detach()				<== tun->socket.file = NULL
> tun_free_netdev()
> sk_release_sock()
> sock_release(sock->file == NULL)
> iput(SOCK_INODE(sock))			<== dereference on NULL pointer
> 
> This patch just removes zeroing of socket's file from __tun_detach().
> sock_release() will do this.
> 
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Ruan Zhijie <ruanzhijie@...mail.com>
> Tested-by: Ruan Zhijie <ruanzhijie@...mail.com>
> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>

Applied, thanks.
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