[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 067/142] pppoe: fix reference counting in PPPoE proxy

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Mar 22 10:39:56 UTC 2016


3.16.7-ckt26 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault at alphalink.fr>

commit 29e73269aa4d36f92b35610c25f8b01c789b0dc8 upstream.

Drop reference on the relay_po socket when __pppoe_xmit() succeeds.
This is already handled correctly in the error path.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault at alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
index 5aa563136373..afac3cdac44b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
@@ -392,6 +392,8 @@ static int pppoe_rcv_core(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 		if (!__pppoe_xmit(sk_pppox(relay_po), skb))
 			goto abort_put;
+
+		sock_put(sk_pppox(relay_po));
 	} else {
 		if (sock_queue_rcv_skb(sk, skb))
 			goto abort_kfree;




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