Previous to setting the owner the socket is found via vsock_find_connected_socket(), which returns sk after a call to sock_hold(). If setting the owner fails, then sock_put() needs to be called. Fixes: f9d2b1e146e0 ("virtio/vsock: fix leaks due to missing skb owner") Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c index b769fc258931..f01cd6adc5cb 100644 --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c @@ -1343,6 +1343,7 @@ void virtio_transport_recv_pkt(struct virtio_transport *t, if (!skb_set_owner_sk_safe(skb, sk)) { WARN_ONCE(1, "receiving vsock socket has sk_refcnt == 0\n"); + sock_put(sk); goto free_pkt; } --- base-commit: 60cbd38bb0ad9e4395fba9c6994f258f1d6cad51 change-id: 20230531-b4-vsock-fix-refcnt-b7b1558c0820 Best regards, -- Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>