netdev - Re: Netlink socket leaks

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Message-ID: <20150502020534.GA9633@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Sat, 2 May 2015 10:05:34 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Andrey Wagin <avagin@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Netlink socket leaks

On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 02:31:09AM +0300, Andrey Wagin wrote:
>
> A socket leaks if it is released by sk_release_kernel(). The problem
> is that netlink_insert() and netlink_remove() is called when a socket
> has different values of sk->sk_net.

Thanks for catching this! Let me look into this to see if we
can still safely dereference the namespace at this point.

Cheers,
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