[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "net: tun: release the reference of tun device in tun_recvmsg" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: tun: release the reference of tun device in tun_recvmsg

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From ea895dbc54bc27cc1bdb9956b620983cd20fac47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gao feng <gaofeng at cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:59:23 +0000
Subject: net: tun: release the reference of tun device in tun_recvmsg

[ Upstream commit 3811ae76bc84e5dc1a670ae10695f046b310bee1 ]

We forget to release the reference of tun device in tun_recvmsg.
bug introduced in commit 54f968d6efdbf7dec36faa44fc11f01b0e4d1990
(tuntap: move socket to tun_file)

Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng at cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/tun.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index cb95fe5..522dc0a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -1471,14 +1471,17 @@ static int tun_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 	if (!tun)
 		return -EBADFD;

-	if (flags & ~(MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_TRUNC))
-		return -EINVAL;
+	if (flags & ~(MSG_DONTWAIT|MSG_TRUNC)) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
 	ret = tun_do_read(tun, tfile, iocb, m->msg_iov, total_len,
 			  flags & MSG_DONTWAIT);
 	if (ret > total_len) {
 		m->msg_flags |= MSG_TRUNC;
 		ret = flags & MSG_TRUNC ? ret : total_len;
 	}
+out:
 	tun_put(tun);
 	return ret;
 }
--
1.8.1.2