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unix: fix a race condition in unix_release()
authorPaul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:18:33 +0000 (03:18 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 16:26:17 +0000 (09:26 -0700)
commit9d7a1a25337ad50e9619685550e0b016ce23ddef
treea27addca6000e0b2c25a52bda21d7c87c790c437
parent3ae217a9770eb723640bc07587359a2b86d96e13
unix: fix a race condition in unix_release()

[ Upstream commit ded34e0fe8fe8c2d595bfa30626654e4b87621e0 ]

As reported by Jan, and others over the past few years, there is a
race condition caused by unix_release setting the sock->sk pointer
to NULL before properly marking the socket as dead/orphaned.  This
can cause a problem with the LSM hook security_unix_may_send() if
there is another socket attempting to write to this partially
released socket in between when sock->sk is set to NULL and it is
marked as dead/orphaned.  This patch fixes this by only setting
sock->sk to NULL after the socket has been marked as dead; I also
take the opportunity to make unix_release_sock() a void function
as it only ever returned 0/success.

Dave, I think this one should go on the -stable pile.

Special thanks to Jan for coming up with a reproducer for this
problem.

Reported-by: Jan Stancek <jan.stancek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/unix/af_unix.c