[PATCH] Fix sock_orphan race.
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. Author: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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