netdev - Re: [PATCH net] dccp: do not release listeners too soon

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Date:   Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:19:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     andreyknvl@...gle.com, gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk, dccp@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, dvyukov@...gle.com, glider@...gle.com,
        kcc@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com, syzkaller@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] dccp: do not release listeners too soon

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:14:41 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Andrey Konovalov reported following error while fuzzing with syzkaller :
 ...
> It turns out DCCP calls __sk_receive_skb(), and this broke when
> lookups no longer took a reference on listeners.
> 
> Fix this issue by adding a @refcounted parameter to __sk_receive_skb(),
> so that sock_put() is used only when needed.
> 
> Fixes: 3b24d854cb35 ("tcp/dccp: do not touch listener sk_refcnt under synflood")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>
> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.