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authorDave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>2016-09-02 14:39:50 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-09-06 12:54:17 -0700
commit03c2778a938aaba0893f6d6cdc29511d91a79848 (patch)
treec910de1f10013bbc12295c279c727e5e39099ba5 /net
parent6e1ce3c3451291142a57c4f3f6f999a29fb5b3bc (diff)
ipv6: release dst in ping_v6_sendmsg
Neither the failure or success paths of ping_v6_sendmsg release the dst it acquires. This leads to a flood of warnings from "net/core/dst.c:288 dst_release" on older kernels that don't have 8bf4ada2e21378816b28205427ee6b0e1ca4c5f1 backported. That patch optimistically hoped this had been fixed post 3.10, but it seems at least one case wasn't, where I've seen this triggered a lot from machines doing unprivileged icmp sockets. Cc: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ping.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ping.c b/net/ipv6/ping.c
index 0900352c924c..0e983b694ee8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ping.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ping.c
@@ -126,8 +126,10 @@ static int ping_v6_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
rt = (struct rt6_info *) dst;
np = inet6_sk(sk);
- if (!np)
- return -EBADF;
+ if (!np) {
+ err = -EBADF;
+ goto dst_err_out;
+ }
if (!fl6.flowi6_oif && ipv6_addr_is_multicast(&fl6.daddr))
fl6.flowi6_oif = np->mcast_oif;
@@ -163,6 +165,9 @@ static int ping_v6_sendmsg(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len)
}
release_sock(sk);
+dst_err_out:
+ dst_release(dst);
+
if (err)
return err;