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    socket: close race condition between sock_close() and sockfs_setattr() · 91717ffc
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    fchownat() doesn't even hold refcnt of fd until it figures out
    fd is really needed (otherwise is ignored) and releases it after
    it resolves the path. This means sock_close() could race with
    sockfs_setattr(), which leads to a NULL pointer dereference
    since typically we set sock->sk to NULL in ->release().
    
    As pointed out by Al, this is unique to sockfs. So we can fix this
    in socket layer by acquiring inode_lock in sock_close() and
    checking against NULL in sockfs_setattr().
    
    sock_release() is called in many places, only the sock_close()
    path matters here. And fortunately, this should not affect normal
    sock_close() as it is only called when the last fd refcnt is gone.
    It only affects sock_close() with a parallel sockfs_setattr() in
    progress, which is not common.
    
    Fixes: 86741ec2
    
     ("net: core: Add a UID field to struct sock.")
    Reported-by: default avatarshankarapailoor <shankarapailoor@gmail.com>
    Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
    Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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