On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 07:58:25AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
>
> Thanks, good. Can you help me to get this fix upstream into the stable
> lines?
Sure. Greg, please apply this patch to fix up the backport for 4.1.
---8<---
The backport of 1f770c0a09da855a2b51af6d19de97fb955eca85 ("netlink:
Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID") missed a
goto statement, which causes netlink to break subtly.
This was discovered by Stefan Priebe <[email protected]>.
Fixes: 4e2776241766 ("netlink: Fix autobind race condition that...")
Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Philipp Hahn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index d139c43..0d6038c 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1118,6 +1118,7 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *sk, u32 portid)
if (err == -EEXIST)
err = -EADDRINUSE;
sock_put(sk);
+ goto err;
}
/* We need to ensure that the socket is hashed and visible. */
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