netdev - Re: Netlink socket leaks

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Date:	Mon, 04 May 2015 00:13:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	avagin@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, ying.xue@...driver.com
Subject: Re: Netlink socket leaks

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 08:04:28 +0800

> ---8<---
> Subject: Revert "net: kernel socket should be released in init_net namespace"
> 
> This reverts commit c243d7e20996254f89c28d4838b5feca735c030d.
> 
> That patch is solving a non-existant problem while creating a
> real problem.  Just because a socket is allocated in the init
> name space doesn't mean that it gets hashed in the init name space.
> 
> When we unhash it the name space must be the same as the one
> we had when we hashed it.  So this patch is completely bogus
> and causes socket leaks.
> 
> Reported-by: Andrey Wagin <avagin@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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