netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net/smc: fix refcounting for non-blocking connect()

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Date:   Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:10:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ubraun@...ux.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        gor@...ux.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, raspl@...ux.ibm.com,
        kgraul@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net/smc: fix refcounting for non-blocking
 connect()

From: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:41:26 +0100

> If a nonblocking socket is immediately closed after connect(),
> the connect worker may not have started. This results in a refcount
> problem, since sock_hold() is called from the connect worker.
> This patch moves the sock_hold in front of the connect worker
> scheduling.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+4c063e6dea39e4b79f29@...kaller.appspotmail.com
> Fixes: 50717a37db03 ("net/smc: nonblocking connect rework")
> Reviewed-by: Karsten Graul <kgraul@...ux.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.ibm.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.