From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:25:56 +0100

> In case multiple writes to a unix stream socket race we could end up in a
> situation where we pre-allocate a new skb for use in unix_stream_sendpage
> but have to free it again in the locked section because another skb
> has been appended meanwhile, which we must use. Accidentally we didn't
> clear the pointer after consuming it and so we touched freed memory
> while appending it to the sk_receive_queue. So, clear the pointer after
> consuming the skb.
> 
> This bug has been found with syzkaller
> (http://github.com/google/syzkaller) by Dmitry Vyukov.
> 
> Fixes: 869e7c62486e ("net: af_unix: implement stream sendpage support")
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <[email protected]>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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