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

From: Stanislav Kinsbursky
Date: Thu Aug 09 2012 - 08:54:28 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: Ruan Zhijie <ruanzhijie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Ruan Zhijie <ruanzhijie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 1 -
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 987aeef..c1639f3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -185,7 +185,6 @@ static void __tun_detach(struct tun_struct *tun)
netif_tx_lock_bh(tun->dev);
netif_carrier_off(tun->dev);
tun->tfile = NULL;
- tun->socket.file = NULL;
netif_tx_unlock_bh(tun->dev);

/* Drop read queue */

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