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rds: tcp: use sock_create_lite() to create the accept socket
commit 0933a578cd55b02dc80f219dc8f2efb17ec61c9a 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: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com> Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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net/rds/tcp_listen.c

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@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ int rds_tcp_accept_one(struct socket *sock)
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struct inet_sock *inet;
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struct rds_tcp_connection *rs_tcp;
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ret = sock_create_kern(sock_net(sock->sk), sock->sk->sk_family,
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ret = sock_create_lite(sock->sk->sk_family,
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sock->sk->sk_type, sock->sk->sk_protocol,
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&new_sock);
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if (ret)

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