netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: diag: Fix refcnt leak in error path destroying socket

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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:12:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, lorenzo@...gle.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: diag: Fix refcnt leak in error path destroying
 socket

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 21:05:27 -0700

> inet_diag_find_one_icsk takes a reference to a socket that is not
> released if sock_diag_destroy returns an error. Fix by changing
> tcp_diag_destroy to manage the refcnt for all cases and remove
> the sock_put calls from tcp_abort.
> 
> Fixes: c1e64e298b8ca ("net: diag: Support destroying TCP sockets")
> Reported-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.