netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: call cgroup_sk_alloc() earlier in sk_clone

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Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:24:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     edumazet@...gle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, hannes@...xchg.org,
        cgallek@...gle.com, tj@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/2] net: call cgroup_sk_alloc() earlier in
 sk_clone_lock()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:12:33 -0700

> If for some reason, the newly allocated child need to be freed,
> we will call cgroup_put() (via sk_free_unlock_clone()) while the
> corresponding cgroup_get() was not yet done, and we will free memory
> too soon.
> 
> Fixes: d979a39d7242 ("cgroup: duplicate cgroup reference when cloning sockets")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.