This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs: dlm: fix sock release if listen fails 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: fs-dlm-fix-sock-release-if-listen-fails.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. >From 08ae0547e75ec3d062b6b6b9cf4830c730df68df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 16:45:11 -0400 Subject: fs: dlm: fix sock release if listen fails From: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 08ae0547e75ec3d062b6b6b9cf4830c730df68df upstream. This patch fixes a double sock_release() call when the listen() is called for the dlm lowcomms listen socket. The caller of dlm_listen_for_all should never care about releasing the socket if dlm_listen_for_all() fails, it's done now only once if listen() fails. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 2dc6b1158c28 ("fs: dlm: introduce generic listen") Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dlm/lowcomms.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c +++ b/fs/dlm/lowcomms.c @@ -1797,7 +1797,7 @@ static int dlm_listen_for_all(void) result = sock->ops->listen(sock, 5); if (result < 0) { dlm_close_sock(&listen_con.sock); - goto out; + return result; } return 0; @@ -2000,7 +2000,6 @@ fail_listen: dlm_proto_ops = NULL; fail_proto_ops: dlm_allow_conn = 0; - dlm_close_sock(&listen_con.sock); work_stop(); fail_local: deinit_local(); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/fs-dlm-retry-accept-until-eagain-or-error-returns.patch queue-5.15/fs-dlm-fix-sock-release-if-listen-fails.patch