On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 16:45 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > You must check return value from try_module_get and error out > if it fails. This is critical for module unload races.
Good point, and of course in such a situation, sk_alloc must free the socket. Please see the updated patch below. Thanks Frank --- Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c --- a/net/core/sock.c +++ b/net/core/sock.c @@ -660,16 +660,20 @@ struct sock *sk_alloc(int family, unsign sock_lock_init(sk); } - if (security_sk_alloc(sk, family, priority)) { - if (slab != NULL) - kmem_cache_free(slab, sk); - else - kfree(sk); - sk = NULL; - } else - __module_get(prot->owner); + if (security_sk_alloc(sk, family, priority)) + goto out_free; + + if (!try_module_get(prot->owner)) + goto out_free; } return sk; + +out_free: + if (slab != NULL) + kmem_cache_free(slab, sk); + else + kfree(sk); + return NULL; } void sk_free(struct sock *sk) diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1145,8 +1145,11 @@ static int __sock_create(int family, int if (!try_module_get(net_families[family]->owner)) goto out_release; - if ((err = net_families[family]->create(sock, protocol)) < 0) + if ((err = net_families[family]->create(sock, protocol)) < 0) { + sock->ops = NULL; goto out_module_put; + } + /* * Now to bump the refcnt of the [loadable] module that owns this * socket at sock_release time we decrement its refcnt. @@ -1360,16 +1363,16 @@ asmlinkage long sys_accept(int fd, struc newsock->type = sock->type; newsock->ops = sock->ops; - err = security_socket_accept(sock, newsock); - if (err) - goto out_release; - /* * We don't need try_module_get here, as the listening socket (sock) * has the protocol module (sock->ops->owner) held. */ __module_get(newsock->ops->owner); + err = security_socket_accept(sock, newsock); + if (err) + goto out_release; + err = sock->ops->accept(sock, newsock, sock->file->f_flags); if (err < 0) goto out_release; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html