netdev - Re: use after free bug in socket code

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Message-ID: <20090709154533.GA27413@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:45:33 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Lothar Waßmann <LW@...O-electronics.de>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de, oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de
Subject: Re: use after free bug in socket code

Lothar Waßmann <LW@...o-electronics.de> wrote:
>
> So, could you point me to the place where the reference count of the
> socket object is being incremented when a struct sock is associated
> with it?

It's implicit.  Anyway, you should remodel your release function
on a working protocol.

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