This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
l2tp: Restore socket refcount when sendmsg succeeds
to the 3.8-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:
l2tp-restore-socket-refcount-when-sendmsg-succeeds.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 40fa5621b5a987cbf2313e21e90f2dbbf9983f07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 05:02:02 +0000
Subject: l2tp: Restore socket refcount when sendmsg succeeds
From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 8b82547e33e85fc24d4d172a93c796de1fefa81a ]
The sendmsg() syscall handler for PPPoL2TP doesn't decrease the socket
reference counter after successful transmissions. Any successful
sendmsg() call from userspace will then increase the reference counter
forever, thus preventing the kernel's session and tunnel data from
being freed later on.
The problem only happens when writing directly on L2TP sockets.
PPP sockets attached to L2TP are unaffected as the PPP subsystem
uses pppol2tp_xmit() which symmetrically increase/decrease reference
counters.
This patch adds the missing call to sock_put() before returning from
pppol2tp_sendmsg().
Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
+++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c
@@ -355,6 +355,7 @@ static int pppol2tp_sendmsg(struct kiocb
l2tp_xmit_skb(session, skb, session->hdr_len);
sock_put(ps->tunnel_sock);
+ sock_put(sk);
return error;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/l2tp-restore-socket-refcount-when-sendmsg-succeeds.patch
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