3.2.99-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit cdd10c9627496ad25c87ce6394e29752253c69d3 upstream. If l2tp_tunnel_delete() or l2tp_tunnel_closeall() deletes a session right after pppol2tp_release() orphaned its socket, then the 'sock' variable of the pppol2tp_session_close() callback is NULL. Yet the session is still used by pppol2tp_release(). Therefore we need to take an extra reference in any case, to prevent l2tp_tunnel_delete() or l2tp_tunnel_closeall() from freeing the session. Since the pppol2tp_session_close() callback is only set if the session is associated to a PPPOL2TP socket and that both l2tp_tunnel_delete() and l2tp_tunnel_closeall() hold the PPPOL2TP socket before calling pppol2tp_session_close(), we're sure that pppol2tp_session_close() and pppol2tp_session_destruct() are paired and called in the right order. So the reference taken by the former will be released by the later. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c +++ b/net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c @@ -466,11 +466,11 @@ static void pppol2tp_session_close(struc BUG_ON(session->magic != L2TP_SESSION_MAGIC); - if (sock) { + if (sock) inet_shutdown(sock, 2); - /* Don't let the session go away before our socket does */ - l2tp_session_inc_refcount(session); - } + + /* Don't let the session go away before our socket does */ + l2tp_session_inc_refcount(session); return; }