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Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:48:39 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] rtnetlink: release net refcnt on error in do_setlink()

Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> writes:

> rtnl_link_get_net() holds a reference on the 'struct net', we need to release
> it in case of error.
>
> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Fixes: b51642f6d77b ("net: Enable a userns root rtnl calls that are safe for unprivilged users")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Doh!
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

> ---
>  net/core/rtnetlink.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> index b9b7dfaf202b..76321ea442c3 100644
> --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
> @@ -1498,6 +1498,7 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb,
>  			goto errout;
>  		}
>  		if (!netlink_ns_capable(skb, net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
> +			put_net(net);
>  			err = -EPERM;
>  			goto errout;
>  		}
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