Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:05:31 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [SELINUX/NET] Fix sock_orphan race. |
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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.
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