netdev - Re: Add missing socket check in can/bcm release.

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Date:	Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:21:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	davej@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add missing socket check in can/bcm release.

From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:03:50 -0400

> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 08:37:20PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>  > From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
>  > Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 23:30:01 -0400
>  > 
>  > > We can get here with a NULL socket argument passed from userspace,
>  > > so we need to handle it accordingly.
>  > > 
>  > > Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
>  > 
>  > Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Dave.
> 
> Out of curiousity, while I was asleep it occured to me.. is it ever valid
> for a ->release to get passed a NULL socket->sk ?

Yes, it happens all the time.

If accept() fails mid-stream, we'll have an 'sk' that hasn't been
hooked up to ->socket yet, but we still have to release the 'sk'
in the error handling.

See also commit c100c8f4c3c6f2a407bdbaaad2c4f1062e6a473a, which
fixes a bug triggered via the same code path.
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