Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] net/handshake: Ensure the request is destructed on completion

From: Hannes Reinecke

Date: Mon Oct 06 2025 - 02:16:55 EST


On 10/3/25 06:31, alistair23@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>

To avoid future handshake_req_hash_add() calls failing with EEXIST when
performing a KeyUpdate let's make sure the old request is destructed
as part of the completion.

Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>
---
v3:
- New patch

net/handshake/request.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/handshake/request.c b/net/handshake/request.c
index 0d1c91c80478..194725a8aaca 100644
--- a/net/handshake/request.c
+++ b/net/handshake/request.c
@@ -311,6 +311,8 @@ void handshake_complete(struct handshake_req *req, unsigned int status,
/* Handshake request is no longer pending */
sock_put(sk);
}
+
+ handshake_sk_destruct_req(sk);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT(handshake_complete);
Curious.
Why do we need it now? We had been happily using the handshake mechanism for quite some time now, so who had been destroying the request without
this patch?

Cheers,

Hannes
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