netdev - Re: [PATCH v4] ax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections

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Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 09:54:27 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@...bit.com>
Cc: Dan Cross <crossd@...il.com>, Duoming Zhou <duoming@....edu.cn>,
	linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] ax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections

On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:25:36AM -0400, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 04:39:27PM GMT, Dan Cross wrote:
> > On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 2:23 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:
> > > The problem is that accept() and ax25_release() are not mirrored pairs.
> 
> Right, but my in making this patch I wasn't thinking so much about
> accept/ax25_release, which as you say are not necessarily a mirrored
> pair...
> 
> > It seems clear that this will happen for sockets that have a ref on
> > the device either via `bind` or via `accept`.
> 
> ...but rather bind/accept, which *are*. The patch I've submitted gives
> us equivalent behavior on the code paths for inbound and outbound
> connections.

This is the explanation I was looking for.  Sorry, I meant to review
these patches again over the weekend but I got caught up in other things.
Give me until tomorrow to review it again.

regards,
dan carpenter