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af_netlink: Add needed scm_destroy after scm_send.
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scm_send occasionally allocates state in the scm_cookie, so I have
modified netlink_sendmsg to guarantee that when scm_send succeeds
scm_destory will be called to free that state.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric W. Biederman authored and David S. Miller committed Jun 16, 2010
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11 changes: 8 additions & 3 deletions net/netlink/af_netlink.c
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Expand Up @@ -1323,19 +1323,23 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
if (msg->msg_flags&MSG_OOB)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

if (NULL == siocb->scm)
if (NULL == siocb->scm) {
siocb->scm = &scm;
memset(&scm, 0, sizeof(scm));
}
err = scm_send(sock, msg, siocb->scm);
if (err < 0)
return err;

if (msg->msg_namelen) {
err = -EINVAL;
if (addr->nl_family != AF_NETLINK)
return -EINVAL;
goto out;
dst_pid = addr->nl_pid;
dst_group = ffs(addr->nl_groups);
err = -EPERM;
if (dst_group && !netlink_capable(sock, NL_NONROOT_SEND))
return -EPERM;
goto out;
} else {
dst_pid = nlk->dst_pid;
dst_group = nlk->dst_group;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1387,6 +1391,7 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
err = netlink_unicast(sk, skb, dst_pid, msg->msg_flags&MSG_DONTWAIT);

out:
scm_destroy(siocb->scm);
return err;
}

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