From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 15:50:07 +0000 (-0800) Subject: net: avoid NULL deref in inet_ctl_sock_destroy() X-Git-Tag: v4.2.7~103 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1ce33c2bcc40c6ccc47fdd35d2afcf8e5c74ba66;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Fstable.git net: avoid NULL deref in inet_ctl_sock_destroy() [ Upstream commit 8fa677d2706d325d71dab91bf6e6512c05214e37 ] Under low memory conditions, tcp_sk_init() and icmp_sk_init() can both iterate on all possible cpus and call inet_ctl_sock_destroy(), with eventual NULL pointer. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/include/net/inet_common.h b/include/net/inet_common.h index 279f83591971b..109e3ee9108c0 100644 --- a/include/net/inet_common.h +++ b/include/net/inet_common.h @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ int inet_recv_error(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int len, static inline void inet_ctl_sock_destroy(struct sock *sk) { - sock_release(sk->sk_socket); + if (sk) + sock_release(sk->sk_socket); } #endif