[PATCH net 1/2] net: Modify unix_stream_connect to not reference count the netns of kernel sockets

[Wang Hai]

When use-gss-proxy is set to 1, write_gssp() creates a rpc client in
gssp_rpc_create(), this increases netns refcount by 2, these refcounts
are supposed to be released in rpcsec_gss_exit_net(), but it will never
happen because rpcsec_gss_exit_net() is triggered only when netns
refcount gets to 0, specifically:
    refcount=0 -> cleanup_net() -> ops_exit_list -> rpcsec_gss_exit_net
It is a deadlock situation here, refcount will never get to 0 unless
rpcsec_gss_exit_net() is called. So, in this case, the netns refcount
should not be increased.

In this case, kernel_connect()->unix_stream_connect() will take a netns
refcount. According to commit 26abe14379f8 ("net: Modify sk_alloc to not
reference count the netns of kernel sockets."), kernel sockets should not
take the netns refcount, so unix_stream_connect() should not take
the netns refcount when the sock is a kernel socket either.

Signed-off-by: Wang Hai <wanghai38@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/unix/af_unix.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index 92345c9bb60c..af6ba67779c8 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c
@@ -1317,7 +1317,8 @@ static int unix_stream_connect(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
 	err = -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* create new sock for complete connection */
-	newsk = unix_create1(sock_net(sk), NULL, 0, sock->type);
+	newsk = unix_create1(sock_net(sk), NULL,
+			     !sk->sk_net_refcnt, sock->type);
 	if (newsk == NULL)
 		goto out;
 
-- 
2.17.1