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[3.13.y-ckt,92/96] rtnetlink: release net refcnt on error in do_setlink()

Message ID 1418671616-25482-93-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa Dec. 15, 2014, 7:26 p.m. UTC 
3.13.11-ckt13 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>

[ Upstream commit e0ebde0e131b529fd721b24f62872def5ec3718c ]

rtnl_link_get_net() holds a reference on the 'struct net', we need to release
it in case of error.

CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Fixes: b51642f6d77b ("net: Enable a userns root rtnl calls that are safe for unprivilged users")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 8463178..7dca4b4 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1391,6 +1391,7 @@  static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 			goto errout;
 		}
 		if (!netlink_ns_capable(skb, net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
+			put_net(net);
 			err = -EPERM;
 			goto errout;
 		}