[patch 57/60] XFRM: Fix leak of expired xfrm_states

Greg KH
2007-12-13T07:19:57Z

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2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

[XFRM]: Fix leak of expired xfrm_states

[ Upstream commit: 5dba4797115c8fa05c1a4d12927a6ae0b33ffc41 ]

The xfrm_timer calls __xfrm_state_delete, which drops the final reference
manually without triggering destruction of the state. Change it to use
xfrm_state_put to add the state to the gc list when we're dropping the
last reference. The timer function may still continue to use the state
safely since the final destruction does a del_timer_sync().

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ int __xfrm_state_delete(struct xfrm_stat
* The xfrm_state_alloc call gives a reference, and that
* is what we are dropping here.
*/
- __xfrm_state_put(x);
+ xfrm_state_put(x);
err = 0;
}

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