Hi Herbert, Am 07.12.2015 um 02:20 schrieb Herbert Xu: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 09:56:34PM +0100, Stefan Priebe wrote: >> Hi Herbert, >> >> i think i found the issue in 4.1 with netlink. Somebody made a >> mistake while backporting or cherry-picking your patch "netlink: Fix >> autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID" to 4.1. >> >> It misses a goto in 4.1. >> >> This goto is missing in 4.1: >> >> diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c >> index 4017e12..f15c001 100644 >> --- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c >> +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c >> @@ -1132,7 +1132,6 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *sk, u32 portid) >> if (err == -EEXIST) >> err = -EADDRINUSE; >> sock_put(sk); >> - goto err; >> } >> >> /* We need to ensure that the socket is hashed and visible. */ >> >> Can you please confirm, that this is not correct and might cause >> those issues. > > Well spotted! Yes this would be a fatal error and can cause the > problems you guys are seeing. Thanks, good. Can you help me to get this fix upstream into the stable lines? Stefan > > Thanks, > -- 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