This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/smc: Remove redundant refcount increase to the 5.15-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: net-smc-remove-redundant-refcount-increase.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 70f2b492605705f5c9ae83d2c8a7b4a19742ae34 Author: Yacan Liu <liuyacan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 30 23:23:14 2022 +0800 net/smc: Remove redundant refcount increase [ Upstream commit a8424a9b4522a3ab9f32175ad6d848739079071f ] For passive connections, the refcount increment has been done in smc_clcsock_accept()-->smc_sock_alloc(). Fixes: 3b2dec2603d5 ("net/smc: restructure client and server code in af_smc") Signed-off-by: Yacan Liu <liuyacan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tony Lu <tonylu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220830152314.838736-1-liuyacan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/smc/af_smc.c b/net/smc/af_smc.c index 2ddd7b34b4ce5..26f81e2e1dfba 100644 --- a/net/smc/af_smc.c +++ b/net/smc/af_smc.c @@ -1490,7 +1490,6 @@ static void smc_listen_out_connected(struct smc_sock *new_smc) { struct sock *newsmcsk = &new_smc->sk; - sk_refcnt_debug_inc(newsmcsk); if (newsmcsk->sk_state == SMC_INIT) newsmcsk->sk_state = SMC_ACTIVE;