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authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2016-07-05 22:12:36 -0700
committerAmit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org>2016-08-18 18:56:03 +0530
commit0e1b4ef27e57a8c3c9687c5c2da9dc773ab46672 (patch)
tree5fa11ee7ae394fdef2a5c5d69915534510114d69 /include/linux/kernel.h
parent2f6175aefb22ea7bbc1244f32c8b80abe599b72c (diff)
UPSTREAM: ppp: defer netns reference release for ppp channel
(cherry pick from commit 205e1e255c479f3fd77446415706463b282f94e4) Matt reported that we have a NULL pointer dereference in ppp_pernet() from ppp_connect_channel(), i.e. pch->chan_net is NULL. This is due to that a parallel ppp_unregister_channel() could happen while we are in ppp_connect_channel(), during which pch->chan_net set to NULL. Since we need a reference to net per channel, it makes sense to sync the refcnt with the life time of the channel, therefore we should release this reference when we destroy it. Fixes: 1f461dcdd296 ("ppp: take reference on channels netns") Reported-by: Matt Bennett <Matt.Bennett@alliedtelesis.co.nz> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org Cc: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr> Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Fixes: Change-Id: Iee0015eca5bd181954bb4896a3720f7549c5ed0b ("UPSTREAM: ppp: take reference on channels netns") Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> Change-Id: I24d0bb6f349ab3829f63cfe935ed97b6913a3508
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