netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: tcp: deal with listen sockets properly in tcp

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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:02:23 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	lorenzo@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tcp: deal with listen sockets properly in
 tcp_abort.

From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:03:44 +0900

> When closing a listen socket, tcp_abort currently calls
> tcp_done without clearing the request queue. If the socket has a
> child socket that is established but not yet accepted, the child
> socket is then left without a parent, causing a leak.
> 
> Fix this by setting the socket state to TCP_CLOSE and calling
> inet_csk_listen_stop with the socket lock held, like tcp_close
> does.
> 
> Tested using net_test. With this patch, calling SOCK_DESTROY on a
> listen socket that has an established but not yet accepted child
> socket results in the parent and the child being closed, such
> that they no longer appear in sock_diag dumps.
> 
> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>

Applied to net-next, which I assume is the intended target tree for
this patch.

Please make that explicit, always, in future submissions.

Thanks.
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