This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled af_unix: Remove put_pid()/put_cred() in copy_peercred(). 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: af_unix-remove-put_pid-put_cred-in-copy_peercred.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 0fc6fdfc3e01c8528ca63bd27ff72e33b100e08c Author: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 20 13:56:22 2024 -0700 af_unix: Remove put_pid()/put_cred() in copy_peercred(). [ Upstream commit e4bd881d987121dbf1a288641491955a53d9f8f7 ] When (AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM) socket connect()s to a listening socket, the listener's sk_peer_pid/sk_peer_cred are copied to the client in copy_peercred(). Then, the client's sk_peer_pid and sk_peer_cred are always NULL, so we need not call put_pid() and put_cred() there. Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c index ae6aae983b8c..c47a734e1f2d 100644 --- a/net/unix/af_unix.c +++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c @@ -605,9 +605,6 @@ static void init_peercred(struct sock *sk) static void copy_peercred(struct sock *sk, struct sock *peersk) { - const struct cred *old_cred; - struct pid *old_pid; - if (sk < peersk) { spin_lock(&sk->sk_peer_lock); spin_lock_nested(&peersk->sk_peer_lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); @@ -615,16 +612,12 @@ static void copy_peercred(struct sock *sk, struct sock *peersk) spin_lock(&peersk->sk_peer_lock); spin_lock_nested(&sk->sk_peer_lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); } - old_pid = sk->sk_peer_pid; - old_cred = sk->sk_peer_cred; + sk->sk_peer_pid = get_pid(peersk->sk_peer_pid); sk->sk_peer_cred = get_cred(peersk->sk_peer_cred); spin_unlock(&sk->sk_peer_lock); spin_unlock(&peersk->sk_peer_lock); - - put_pid(old_pid); - put_cred(old_cred); } static int unix_listen(struct socket *sock, int backlog)