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From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
To: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] rds: tcp: use sock_create_lite() to create the accept socket
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 09:43:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff81c72f-0ce3-fbd7-1330-31151fa5198a@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6918d62064a34e62638f7bb47e4dcdf7de943549.1499352757.git.sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>

On 7/6/2017 8:15 AM, Sowmini Varadhan wrote:
> There are two problems with calling sock_create_kern() from
> rds_tcp_accept_one()
> 1. it sets up a new_sock->sk that is wasteful, because this ->sk
>     is going to get replaced by inet_accept() in the subsequent ->accept()
> 2. The new_sock->sk is a leaked reference in sock_graft() which
>     expects to find a null parent->sk
> 
> Avoid these problems by calling sock_create_lite().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-06 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-06 15:15 [PATCH net 0/2] rds-tcp: sock_graft() leak Sowmini Varadhan
2017-07-06 15:15 ` [PATCH net 1/2] rds: tcp: use sock_create_lite() to create the accept socket Sowmini Varadhan
2017-07-06 16:43   ` Santosh Shilimkar [this message]
2017-07-06 15:15 ` [PATCH net 2/2] net/sock: add WARN_ON(parent->sk) in sock_graft() Sowmini Varadhan
2017-07-08 10:17 ` [PATCH net 0/2] rds-tcp: sock_graft() leak David Miller

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