This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

netlink: put module reference if dump start fails

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: netlink-put-module-reference-if-dump-start-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Tue Mar 6 19:02:56 PST 2018

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Jason@zx2c4.com Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 04:41:59 +0100 Subject: netlink: put module reference if dump start fails

From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Jason@zx2c4.com

[ Upstream commit b87b6194be631c94785fe93398651e804ed43e28 ]

Before, if cb->start() failed, the module reference would never be put, because cb->cb_running is intentionally false at this point. Users are generally annoyed by this because they can no longer unload modules that leak references. Also, it may be possible to tediously wrap a reference counter back to zero, especially since module.c still uses atomic_inc instead of refcount_inc.

This patch expands the error path to simply call module_put if cb->start() fails.

Fixes: 41c87425a1ac ("netlink: do not set cb_running if dump's start() errs") Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c @@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ss if (cb->start) { ret = cb->start(cb); if (ret) - goto error_unlock; + goto error_put; }

nlk->cb_running = true; @@ -2295,6 +2295,8 @@ int __netlink_dump_start(struct sock *ss */ return -EINTR;

+error_put: + module_put(control->module); error_unlock: sock_put(sk); mutex_unlock(nlk->cb_mutex);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Jason@zx2c4.com are

queue-4.15/netlink-put-module-reference-if-dump-start-fails.patch