Otherwise, there exists a small window between the opening and closing of the socket fd where it may leak into processes launched by some other thread. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c index 4dd73de00..d2cb28e9e 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static int libbpf_netlink_open(__u32 *nl_pid) memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa)); sa.nl_family = AF_NETLINK; - sock = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ROUTE); + sock = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW | SOCK_CLOEXEC, NETLINK_ROUTE); if (sock < 0) return -errno; -- 2.30.2
