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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2015-05-09 04:10:31 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-05-11 16:50:18 +0200
commit26abe14379f8e2fa3fd1bcf97c9a7ad9364886fe (patch)
treee2161c09531299ce4bfbeb1506c420b9f8db7fc2 /net/core
parentnet: Pass kern from net_proto_family.create to sk_alloc (diff)
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net: Modify sk_alloc to not reference count the netns of kernel sockets.
Now that sk_alloc knows when a kernel socket is being allocated modify it to not reference count the network namespace of kernel sockets. Keep track of if a socket needs reference counting by adding a flag to struct sock called sk_net_refcnt. Update all of the callers of sock_create_kern to stop using sk_change_net and sk_release_kernel as those hacks are no longer needed, to avoid reference counting a kernel socket. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/core')
-rw-r--r--net/core/sock.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
index cbc3789b830c..9e8968e9ebeb 100644
--- a/net/core/sock.c
+++ b/net/core/sock.c
@@ -1412,7 +1412,10 @@ struct sock *sk_alloc(struct net *net, int family, gfp_t priority,
*/
sk->sk_prot = sk->sk_prot_creator = prot;
sock_lock_init(sk);
- sock_net_set(sk, get_net(net));
+ sk->sk_net_refcnt = kern ? 0 : 1;
+ if (likely(sk->sk_net_refcnt))
+ get_net(net);
+ sock_net_set(sk, net);
atomic_set(&sk->sk_wmem_alloc, 1);
sock_update_classid(sk);
@@ -1446,7 +1449,8 @@ static void __sk_free(struct sock *sk)
if (sk->sk_peer_cred)
put_cred(sk->sk_peer_cred);
put_pid(sk->sk_peer_pid);
- put_net(sock_net(sk));
+ if (likely(sk->sk_net_refcnt))
+ put_net(sock_net(sk));
sk_prot_free(sk->sk_prot_creator, sk);
}