This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: tun: release the reference of tun device in tun_recvmsg to the 3.9-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-tun-release-the-reference-of-tun-device-in-tun_recvmsg.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a8450dc36241a24946e108e79f691c4e4630accf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gao feng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:59:23 +0000 Subject: net: tun: release the reference of tun device in tun_recvmsg From: Gao feng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3811ae76bc84e5dc1a670ae10695f046b310bee1 ] We forget to release the reference of tun device in tun_recvmsg. bug introduced in commit 54f968d6efdbf7dec36faa44fc11f01b0e4d1990 (tuntap: move socket to tun_file) Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/tun.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -1471,14 +1471,17 @@ static int tun_recvmsg(struct kiocb *ioc if (!tun) return -EBADFD; - if (flags & ~(MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_TRUNC)) - return -EINVAL; + if (flags & ~(MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_TRUNC)) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } ret = tun_do_read(tun, tfile, iocb, m->msg_iov, total_len, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT); if (ret > total_len) { m->msg_flags |= MSG_TRUNC; ret = flags & MSG_TRUNC ? ret : total_len; } +out: tun_put(tun); return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.9/net-tun-release-the-reference-of-tun-device-in-tun_recvmsg.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html