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authorSridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>2006-01-17 11:51:28 -0800
committerSridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>2006-01-17 11:51:28 -0800
commit7a48f923b8b27bfaa5f7b2a449a6fe268724ddd5 (patch)
tree005774759b9f0bba685adc9d9bccbe208a787c2f /net/sctp/inqueue.c
parent2664b25051f7ab96b22b199aa2f5ef6a949a4296 (diff)
downloadlinux-7a48f923b8b27bfaa5f7b2a449a6fe268724ddd5.tar.bz2
[SCTP]: Fix potential race condition between sctp_close() and sctp_rcv().
Do not release the reference to association/endpoint if an incoming skb is added to backlog. Instead release it after the chunk is processed in sctp_backlog_rcv(). Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sctp/inqueue.c')
-rw-r--r--net/sctp/inqueue.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/sctp/inqueue.c b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
index 2d33922c044b..297b8951463e 100644
--- a/net/sctp/inqueue.c
+++ b/net/sctp/inqueue.c
@@ -73,8 +73,10 @@ void sctp_inq_free(struct sctp_inq *queue)
/* If there is a packet which is currently being worked on,
* free it as well.
*/
- if (queue->in_progress)
+ if (queue->in_progress) {
sctp_chunk_free(queue->in_progress);
+ queue->in_progress = NULL;
+ }
if (queue->malloced) {
/* Dump the master memory segment. */