From 78b910429e2c037533d2a7bd9e95b4f94f905ef8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:51:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [IPV6] tcp_v6_send_synack: release the destination This patch fix dst reference counting in tcp_v6_send_synack Analysis: Currently tcp_v6_send_synack is never called with a dst entry so dst always comes in as NULL. ip6_dst_lookup calls ip6_route_output which calls dst_hold before it returns the dst entry. Neither xfrm_lookup nor tcp_make_synack consume the dst entry so we still have a dst_entry with a bumped refrence count at the end of this function. Therefore we need to call dst_release just before we return just like tcp_v4_send_synack does. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c index 66d04004afd..ca9cf685375 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c @@ -515,6 +515,7 @@ static int tcp_v6_send_synack(struct sock *sk, struct request_sock *req, done: if (opt && opt != np->opt) sock_kfree_s(sk, opt, opt->tot_len); + dst_release(dst); return err; }