From: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:44:52 -0400
> On 10/25/2007 10:11 AM, Rich Paul wrote: > > In 2.6.23, there seems to be a minor bug in sys_socketpair. When the > > calls to sock_alloc_fd fail, it aborts the routine, but it returns the > > variable err, which is not set in this case. > > > > The result is a silent failure if you have too many files open and call > > socketpair. > > > > Here is a simple UNTESTED patch (not even compiled) which should resolve the > > issue. > > > > > > --- net/socket.c.orig 2007-10-25 10:03:56.000000000 -0400 > > +++ net/socket.c 2007-10-25 10:04:00.000000000 -0400 > Should be "err = fd1" (spaces), otherwise looks good. > > Original did: > > err = sock_map_fd(sock1); > if (err < 0) > goto out_release_both; > fd1 = err; Thanks everyone, I'll commit the following both to 2.6.x GIT and -stable. >From 42f3fc7e989554e9952bdf28af137e4e4570f067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:54:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [NET]: Fix error reporting in sys_socketpair(). If either of the two sock_alloc_fd() calls fail, we forget to update 'err' and thus we'll erroneously return zero in these cases. Based upon a report and patch from Rich Paul, and commentary from Chuck Ebbert. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/socket.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c index 540013e..5d879fd 100644 --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1250,11 +1250,14 @@ asmlinkage long sys_socketpair(int family, int type, int protocol, goto out_release_both; fd1 = sock_alloc_fd(&newfile1); - if (unlikely(fd1 < 0)) + if (unlikely(fd1 < 0)) { + err = fd1; goto out_release_both; + } fd2 = sock_alloc_fd(&newfile2); if (unlikely(fd2 < 0)) { + err = fd2; put_filp(newfile1); put_unused_fd(fd1); goto out_release_both; -- 1.5.2.5 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html