From: Ka-Cheong Poon <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:07:18 -0800
> Commit 0933a578cd55 ("rds: tcp: use sock_create_lite() to create the
> accept socket") has a reference counting issue in TCP socket creation
> when accepting a new connection. The code uses sock_create_lite() to
> create a kernel socket. But it does not do __module_get() on the
> socket owner. When the connection is shutdown and sock_release() is
> called to free the socket, the owner's reference count is decremented
> and becomes incorrect. Note that this bug only shows up when the socket
> owner is configured as a kernel module.
>
> v2: Update comments
>
> Signed-off-by: Ka-Cheong Poon <[email protected]>
Applied and queued up for -stable.
Please provide a proper, appropriate, "Fixes: " tag next time.
I added it for you in this case.
