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Message-ID: <CANnsUMEM7pLgiTBzMXh7Ym5=dKJ01yCcZV4DZQgD7FnAGqZDYg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2024 16:37:35 -0700
From: Chris Maness <christopher.maness@...il.com>
To: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
Cc: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@...bit.com>, crossd@...il.com, duoming@....edu.cn, 
	linux-hams@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] ax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections

Is this the only patch to get the last stable branch off of the
mainline (6.9) up to date?

diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
index 8077cf2ee4480..d6f9fae06a9d8 100644
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1378,8 +1378,10 @@ static int ax25_accept(struct socket *sock,
struct socket *newsock,
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
struct sock *newsk;
+ ax25_dev *ax25_dev;
DEFINE_WAIT(wait);
struct sock *sk;
+ ax25_cb *ax25;
int err = 0;
if (sock->state != SS_UNCONNECTED)
@@ -1434,6 +1436,10 @@ static int ax25_accept(struct socket *sock,
struct socket *newsock,
kfree_skb(skb);
sk_acceptq_removed(sk);
newsock->state = SS_CONNECTED;
+ ax25 = sk_to_ax25(newsk);
+ ax25_dev = ax25->ax25_dev;
+ netdev_hold(ax25_dev->dev, &ax25->dev_tracker, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ ax25_dev_hold(ax25_dev);
out:
release_sock(sk);

#########################################

and I am going to guess that the next stable fork will have this
commit already applied?

Thanks in advance,
Chris KQ6UP

On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 4:10 PM Chris Maness
<christopher.maness@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Awesome!
>
> Thanks,
> Chris Maness
> -Sent from my iPhone
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2024 at 4:00 PM <patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello:
>>
>> This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
>> by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:
>>
>> On Wed, 29 May 2024 17:02:43 -0400 you wrote:
>> > From: Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars@...bit.com>
>> >
>> > When releasing a socket in ax25_release(), we call netdev_put() to
>> > decrease the refcount on the associated ax.25 device. However, the
>> > execution path for accepting an incoming connection never calls
>> > netdev_hold(). This imbalance leads to refcount errors, and ultimately
>> > to kernel crashes.
>> >
>> > [...]
>>
>> Here is the summary with links:
>>   - [v5] ax25: Fix refcount imbalance on inbound connections
>>     https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/3c34fb0bd4a4
>>
>> You are awesome, thank you!
>> --
>> Deet-doot-dot, I am a bot.
>> https://korg.docs.kernel.org/patchwork/pwbot.html
>>
>>


-- 
Thanks,
Chris Maness

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