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| author | Tuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au> | 2020-06-02 11:46:40 +0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-06-02 15:13:46 -0700 |
| commit | 049fa17f7ae6b0971ad41b761479962facafea4b (patch) | |
| tree | 7fca7334b7c3d61af4558afda17c449768673240 /net | |
| parent | 11e877b2a8cfd282a1b81f9d4c594b900889a5d8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-049fa17f7ae6b0971ad41b761479962facafea4b.tar.bz2 | |
Revert "tipc: Fix potential tipc_node refcnt leak in tipc_rcv"
This reverts commit de058420767df21e2b6b0f3bb36d1616fb962032.
There is no actual tipc_node refcnt leak as stated in the above commit.
The refcnt is hold carefully for the case of an asynchronous decryption
(i.e. -EINPROGRESS/-EBUSY and skb = NULL is returned), so that the node
object cannot be freed in the meantime. The counter will be re-balanced
when the operation's callback arrives with the decrypted buffer if any.
In other cases, e.g. a synchronous crypto the counter will be decreased
immediately when it is done.
Now with that commit, a kernel panic will occur when there is no node
found (i.e. n = NULL) in the 'tipc_rcv()' or a premature release of the
node object.
This commit solves the issues by reverting the said commit, but keeping
one valid case that the 'skb_linearize()' is failed.
Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jmaloy@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tuong Lien <tuong.t.lien@dektech.com.au>
Tested-by: Hoang Le <hoang.h.le@dektech.com.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tipc/node.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/node.c b/net/tipc/node.c index 0312fb181d94..a4c2816c3746 100644 --- a/net/tipc/node.c +++ b/net/tipc/node.c @@ -2038,7 +2038,6 @@ void tipc_rcv(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, struct tipc_bearer *b) n = tipc_node_find_by_id(net, ehdr->id); } tipc_crypto_rcv(net, (n) ? n->crypto_rx : NULL, &skb, b); - tipc_node_put(n); if (!skb) return; |