3.8.13.1 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/tun.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c index cb95fe5..522dc0a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/tun.c +++ b/drivers/net/tun.c @@ -1471,14 +1471,17 @@ static int tun_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock, 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; } -- 1.8.1.2 -- 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