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[3.13.y-ckt,stable] Patch "pppoe: fix reference counting in PPPoE proxy" has been added to the 3.13.y-ckt tree

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Kamal Mostafa March 9, 2016, 11:12 p.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    pppoe: fix reference counting in PPPoE proxy

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt36.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From c951419c78ec928260bc93965486f6e9e3ee29e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:01:10 +0100
Subject: pppoe: fix reference counting in PPPoE proxy

commit 29e73269aa4d36f92b35610c25f8b01c789b0dc8 upstream.

Drop reference on the relay_po socket when __pppoe_xmit() succeeds.
This is already handled correctly in the error path.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
index 1cfd4e8..ec98278 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pppoe.c
@@ -392,6 +392,8 @@  static int pppoe_rcv_core(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)

 		if (!__pppoe_xmit(sk_pppox(relay_po), skb))
 			goto abort_put;
+
+		sock_put(sk_pppox(relay_po));
 	} else {
 		if (sock_queue_rcv_skb(sk, skb))
 			goto abort_kfree;