[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "SUNRPC: Fix a module reference leak in svc_handle_xprt" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jun 26 10:34:50 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    SUNRPC: Fix a module reference leak in svc_handle_xprt

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 14:05:22 -0400
Subject: SUNRPC: Fix a module reference leak in svc_handle_xprt

commit c789102c20bbbdda6831a273e046715be9d6af79 upstream.

If the accept() call fails, we need to put the module reference.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index 80a6640f329b..b9aad4723a9d 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -730,6 +730,8 @@ static int svc_handle_xprt(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_xprt *xprt)
 		newxpt = xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_accept(xprt);
 		if (newxpt)
 			svc_add_new_temp_xprt(serv, newxpt);
+		else
+			module_put(xprt->xpt_class->xcl_owner);
 	} else if (xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_has_wspace(xprt)) {
 		/* XPT_DATA|XPT_DEFERRED case: */
 		dprintk("svc: server %p, pool %u, transport %p, inuse=%d\n",
--
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