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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: asmadeus@codewreck.org
Cc: Wang Hai <wanghai38@huawei.com>,
	ericvh@gmail.com, lucho@ionkov.net, linux_oss@crudebyte.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/9p: Fix a potential socket leak in p9_socket_open
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 16:15:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y3+YqUbLXZ1ouynB@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y382Spkkzt+i86e8@codewreck.org>

On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 06:15:54PM +0900, asmadeus@codewreck.org wrote:
> Wang Hai wrote on Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 04:10:05PM +0800:
> > Both p9_fd_create_tcp() and p9_fd_create_unix() will call
> > p9_socket_open(). If the creation of p9_trans_fd fails,
> > p9_fd_create_tcp() and p9_fd_create_unix() will return an
> > error directly instead of releasing the cscoket, which will
> 
> (typo, socket or csocket -- I'll fix this on applying)
> 
> > result in a socket leak.
> > 
> > This patch adds sock_release() to fix the leak issue.
> 
> Thanks, it looks good to me.
> A bit confusing that sock_alloc_files() calls sock_release() itself on
> failure, but that means this one's safe at least...

sock_alloc_file() unconditionally consumes socket reference;
either it is transferred to new struct file it returns, or
it's dropped.  Makes for simpler logics in callers...
FWIW,
ACKed-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
on the leak fix.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-24 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-24  8:10 [PATCH net] net/9p: Fix a potential socket leak in p9_socket_open Wang Hai
2022-11-24  9:15 ` asmadeus
2022-11-24 11:19   ` wanghai (M)
2022-11-24 16:15   ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-11-28 11:10 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf

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