netdev - [PATCH net-next v2 03/16] tipc: set kern=0 in sk_alloc() during tipc

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Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2016 14:02:36 +0100
From:   Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@...csson.com>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net>, <jon.maloy@...csson.com>,
        <maloy@...jonn.com>, <ying.xue@...driver.com>
Subject: [PATCH net-next v2 03/16] tipc: set kern=0 in sk_alloc() during tipc_accept()

Until now, tipc_accept() calls sk_alloc() with kern=1. This is
incorrect as the data socket's owner is the user application.
Thus for these accepted data sockets the network namespace
refcount is skipped.

In this commit, we fix this by setting kern=0.

Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
Signed-off-by: Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@...csson.com>
---
 net/tipc/socket.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c
index cd01deb1da9c..82aec2eb8497 100644
--- a/net/tipc/socket.c
+++ b/net/tipc/socket.c
@@ -2093,7 +2093,7 @@ static int tipc_accept(struct socket *sock, struct socket *new_sock, int flags)
 
 	buf = skb_peek(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
 
-	res = tipc_sk_create(sock_net(sock->sk), new_sock, 0, 1);
+	res = tipc_sk_create(sock_net(sock->sk), new_sock, 0, 0);
 	if (res)
 		goto exit;
 	security_sk_clone(sock->sk, new_sock->sk);
-- 
2.1.4