This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
libbpf: Use SOCK_CLOEXEC when opening the netlink socket
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
libbpf-use-sock_cloexec-when-opening-the-netlink-soc.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 68e0010c1df71e51a6ddcff934f51f2b3d65b6f0
Author: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Mar 17 17:28:58 2021 +0530
libbpf: Use SOCK_CLOEXEC when opening the netlink socket
[ Upstream commit 58bfd95b554f1a23d01228672f86bb489bdbf4ba ]
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.
Fixes: 949abbe88436 ("libbpf: add function to setup XDP")
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210317115857.6536-1-memxor@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
index 88416be2bf99..5ec8043c71bc 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ 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;
