netdev - Re: [PATCH net] l2tp: fix a sock refcnt leak in l2tp_tunnel

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Message-Id: <20181114.225100.2058061196232465602.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 14 Nov 2018 22:51:00 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     lucien.xin@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, g.nault@...halink.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] l2tp: fix a sock refcnt leak in
 l2tp_tunnel_register

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 01:08:25 +0800

> This issue happens when trying to add an existent tunnel. It
> doesn't call sock_put() before returning -EEXIST to release
> the sock refcnt that was held by calling sock_hold() before
> the existence check.
> 
> This patch is to fix it by holding the sock after doing the
> existence check.
> 
> Fixes: f6cd651b056f ("l2tp: fix race in duplicate tunnel detection")
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.