The retry logic for netlink_attachskb() inside sys_mq_notify()
is nasty and vulnerable:

1) The sock refcnt is already released when retry is needed
2) The fd is controllable by user-space because we already
   release the file refcnt

so we when retry but the fd has been just closed by user-space
during this small window, we end up calling netlink_detachskb()
on the error path which releases the sock again, later when
the user-space closes this socket a use-after-free could be
triggered.

Setting 'sock' to NULL here should be sufficient to fix it.

Reported-by: GeneBlue <geneblue.m...@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manf...@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
---
 ipc/mqueue.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
index c9ff943..eb1391b 100644
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -1270,8 +1270,10 @@ static int do_mq_notify(mqd_t mqdes, const struct 
sigevent *notification)
 
                        timeo = MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT;
                        ret = netlink_attachskb(sock, nc, &timeo, NULL);
-                       if (ret == 1)
+                       if (ret == 1) {
+                               sock = NULL;
                                goto retry;
+                       }
                        if (ret) {
                                sock = NULL;
                                nc = NULL;
-- 
2.5.5

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