From: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b8ad540dd4e40566c520dff491fc06c71ae6b989 ] socket malloced by sock_create_kern() should be release before return in the error handling, otherwise it cause memory leak. unreferenced object 0xffff88810910c000 (size 1216): comm "00000003_test_m", pid 12238, jiffies 4295050289 (age 54.237s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 2f 30 0a 81 88 ff ff ........./0..... backtrace: [<00000000e877f89f>] sock_alloc_inode+0x18/0x1c0 [<0000000093d1dd51>] alloc_inode+0x63/0x1d0 [<000000005673fec6>] new_inode_pseudo+0x14/0xe0 [<00000000b5db6be8>] sock_alloc+0x3c/0x260 [<00000000e7e3cbb2>] __sock_create+0x89/0x620 [<0000000023e48593>] mptcp_subflow_create_socket+0xc0/0x5e0 [<00000000419795e4>] __mptcp_socket_create+0x1ad/0x3f0 [<00000000b2f942e8>] mptcp_stream_connect+0x281/0x4f0 [<00000000c80cd5cc>] __sys_connect_file+0x14d/0x190 [<00000000dc761f11>] __sys_connect+0x128/0x160 [<000000008b14e764>] __x64_sys_connect+0x6f/0xb0 [<000000007b4f93bd>] do_syscall_64+0xa1/0x530 [<00000000d3e770b6>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xb3 Fixes: 2303f994b3e1 ("mptcp: Associate MPTCP context with TCP socket") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mptcp/subflow.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/mptcp/subflow.c b/net/mptcp/subflow.c index e6feb05a93dc3..db3e4e74e7857 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/subflow.c +++ b/net/mptcp/subflow.c @@ -1015,8 +1015,10 @@ int mptcp_subflow_create_socket(struct sock *sk, struct socket **new_sock) err = tcp_set_ulp(sf->sk, "mptcp"); release_sock(sf->sk); - if (err) + if (err) { + sock_release(sf); return err; + } /* the newly created socket really belongs to the owning MPTCP master * socket, even if for additional subflows the allocation is performed -- 2.25.1