Re: memory leak in do_ipv6_setsockopt

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Tue Dec 01 2015 - 09:38:54 EST


On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 15:24 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 12/01/2015 03:16 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 15:07 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> >
> >> Yeah, we miss inet6_destroy_sock() in SCTP. :-(
> >>
> >> Looks good to me.
> >
> > OK, I will send a formal (and tested ;) ) patch.
>
> I was shortly wondering whether there could be a use-after-free by
> doing this after sctp_destroy_sock() due to the sctp_endpoint_destroy()
> that would eventually drop a ref on the socket, but the endpoint holds
> a separate ref, so we should be good.
>

More generically ->destroy() caller must keep a reference on the socket.

inet_csk_destroy_sock() for example uses sk after

sk->sk_prot->destroy(sk);



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