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SubjectRe: [SELINUX/NET] Fix sock_orphan race.
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:18:59 -0400 (EDT)
James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> wrote:

> The patch below fixes a race between sock_orphan() and
> selinux_socket_sock_rcv_skb() which can lead to a null pointer deref oops
> under heavy load. The sk_callback_lock is used in the patch to
> synchronize access to the incoming socket's inode security state.
>
> This patch has been under test in the Fedora kernel for over a month
> without incident.

Applied, thanks.
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