This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tcp: reset sk_rx_dst in tcp_disconnect()
to the 3.18-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:
tcp-reset-sk_rx_dst-in-tcp_disconnect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d747a7a51b00984127a88113cdbbc26f91e9d815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 23:50:30 -0700
Subject: tcp: reset sk_rx_dst in tcp_disconnect()
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
commit d747a7a51b00984127a88113cdbbc26f91e9d815 upstream.
We have to reset the sk->sk_rx_dst when we disconnect a TCP
connection, because otherwise when we re-connect it this
dst reference is simply overridden in tcp_finish_connect().
This fixes a dst leak which leads to a loopback dev refcnt
leak. It is a long-standing bug, Kevin reported a very similar
(if not same) bug before. Thanks to Andrei for providing such
a reliable reproducer which greatly narrows down the problem.
Fixes: 41063e9dd119 ("ipv4: Early TCP socket demux.")
Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kevin Xu <kaiwen.xu@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/net/ipv4/tcp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/tcp.c
@@ -2268,6 +2268,8 @@ int tcp_disconnect(struct sock *sk, int
tcp_init_send_head(sk);
memset(&tp->rx_opt, 0, sizeof(tp->rx_opt));
__sk_dst_reset(sk);
+ dst_release(sk->sk_rx_dst);
+ sk->sk_rx_dst = NULL;
WARN_ON(inet->inet_num && !icsk->icsk_bind_hash);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/ipv6-avoid-unregistering-inet6_dev-for-loopback.patch
queue-3.18/tcp-reset-sk_rx_dst-in-tcp_disconnect.patch