Commit 181dda46 authored by Sowmini Varadhan's avatar Sowmini Varadhan Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

rds: tcp: use sock_create_lite() to create the accept socket

commit 0933a578 upstream.

There are two problems with calling sock_create_kern() from
rds_tcp_accept_one()
1. it sets up a new_sock->sk that is wasteful, because this ->sk
   is going to get replaced by inet_accept() in the subsequent ->accept()
2. The new_sock->sk is a leaked reference in sock_graft() which
   expects to find a null parent->sk

Avoid these problems by calling sock_create_lite().
Signed-off-by: default avatarSowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent e6577f1e
......@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct socket *sock)
if (!sock) /* module unload or netns delete in progress */
return -ENETUNREACH;
ret = sock_create_kern(sock_net(sock->sk), sock->sk->sk_family,
ret = sock_create_lite(sock->sk->sk_family,
sock->sk->sk_type, sock->sk->sk_protocol,
&new_sock);
if (ret)
......
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