Patch "ping: implement proper locking" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ping: implement proper locking

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ping-implement-proper-locking.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:36:13 -0700
Subject: ping: implement proper locking

From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>

commit 43a6684519ab0a6c52024b5e25322476cabad893 upstream.

We got a report of yet another bug in ping

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/03/24/6

->disconnect() is not called with socket lock held.

Fix this by acquiring ping rwlock earlier.

Thanks to Daniel, Alexander and Andrey for letting us know this problem.

---
 net/ipv4/ping.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -154,17 +154,18 @@ void ping_hash(struct sock *sk)
 void ping_unhash(struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct inet_sock *isk = inet_sk(sk);
+
 	pr_debug("ping_unhash(isk=%p,isk->num=%u)\n", isk, isk->inet_num);
+	write_lock_bh(&ping_table.lock);
 	if (sk_hashed(sk)) {
-		write_lock_bh(&ping_table.lock);
 		hlist_nulls_del(&sk->sk_nulls_node);
 		sk_nulls_node_init(&sk->sk_nulls_node);
 		sock_put(sk);
 		isk->inet_num = 0;
 		isk->inet_sport = 0;
 		sock_prot_inuse_add(sock_net(sk), sk->sk_prot, -1);
-		write_unlock_bh(&ping_table.lock);
 	}
+	write_unlock_bh(&ping_table.lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ping_unhash);
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ping-implement-proper-locking.patch