netlink: put module reference if dump start fails
authorJason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 03:41:59 +0000 (04:41 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 9 Mar 2018 06:41:17 +0000 (22:41 -0800)
commiteec434c573e78c1190a812cb48a8b16c254541ea
treee87b20ddbdcb2d72399e13bce296f29604773656
parentabd7663b5d1c07106b65361e6f2effd1c0313e7e
netlink: put module reference if dump start fails

[ Upstream commit b87b6194be631c94785fe93398651e804ed43e28 ]

Before, if cb->start() failed, the module reference would never be put,
because cb->cb_running is intentionally false at this point. Users are
generally annoyed by this because they can no longer unload modules that
leak references. Also, it may be possible to tediously wrap a reference
counter back to zero, especially since module.c still uses atomic_inc
instead of refcount_inc.

This patch expands the error path to simply call module_put if
cb->start() fails.

Fixes: 41c87425a1ac ("netlink: do not set cb_running if dump's start() errs")
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/netlink/af_netlink.c