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authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>2018-02-21 04:41:59 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-03-08 22:41:17 -0800
commiteec434c573e78c1190a812cb48a8b16c254541ea (patch)
treee87b20ddbdcb2d72399e13bce296f29604773656 /net/netlink
parentabd7663b5d1c07106b65361e6f2effd1c0313e7e (diff)
netlink: put module reference if dump start fails
[ Upstream commit b87b6194be631c94785fe93398651e804ed43e28 ] Before, if cb->start() failed, the module reference would never be put, because cb->cb_running is intentionally false at this point. Users are generally annoyed by this because they can no longer unload modules that leak references. Also, it may be possible to tediously wrap a reference counter back to zero, especially since module.c still uses atomic_inc instead of refcount_inc. This patch expands the error path to simply call module_put if cb->start() fails. Fixes: 41c87425a1ac ("netlink: do not set cb_running if dump's start() errs") Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/af_netlink.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 533fd0503ba0..9219bc134109 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2276,7 +2276,7 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
if (cb->start) {
ret = cb->start(cb);
if (ret)
- goto error_unlock;
+ goto error_put;
}
nlk->cb_running = true;
@@ -2296,6 +2296,8 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ssk, struct sk_buff *skb,
*/
return -EINTR;
+error_put:
+ module_put(control->module);
error_unlock:
sock_put(sk);
mutex_unlock(nlk->cb_mutex);