netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix a request socket leak

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Date:   Fri, 08 Sep 2017 16:08:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     alexei.starovoitov@...il.com
Cc:     eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp: fix a request socket leak

From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:59:23 -0700

> On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 12:44:47PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>> 
>> While the cited commit fixed a possible deadlock, it added a leak
>> of the request socket, since reqsk_put() must be called if the BPF
>> filter decided the ACK packet must be dropped.
>> 
>> Fixes: d624d276d1dd ("tcp: fix possible deadlock in TCP stack vs BPF filter")
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
>> ---
>> David, this is a stable candidate (linux-4.13 has this bug)
> 
> Thanks for the fix
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
> .. since the fix makes sense to me and as a reminder not to forget
> to backport it as well :)

Applied and queued up for -stable.