Re: Asterisk deadlocks since Kernel 4.1

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On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 09:56:34PM +0100, Stefan Priebe wrote:
> Hi Herbert,
> 
> i think i found the issue in 4.1 with netlink. Somebody made a
> mistake while backporting or cherry-picking your patch "netlink: Fix
> autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID" to 4.1.
> 
> It misses a goto in 4.1.
> 
> This goto is missing in 4.1:
> 
> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> index 4017e12..f15c001 100644
> --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
> @@ -1132,7 +1132,6 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *sk, u32 portid)
>                 if (err == -EEXIST)
>                         err = -EADDRINUSE;
>                 sock_put(sk);
> -               goto err;
>         }
> 
>         /* We need to ensure that the socket is hashed and visible. */
> 
> Can you please confirm, that this is not correct and might cause
> those issues.

Well spotted! Yes this would be a fatal error and can cause the
problems you guys are seeing.

Thanks,
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