Merge branch 'sock_queue_err_skb'
Alexander Duyck says:
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Address reference counting issues with sock_queue_err_skb
After looking over the code for skb_clone_sk after some comments made by
Eric Dumazet I have come to the conclusion that skb_clone_sk is taking the
correct approach in how to handle the sk_refcnt when creating a buffer that
is eventually meant to be returned to the socket via the sock_queue_err_skb
function.
However upon review of other callers I found what I believe to be a
possible reference count issue in the path for handling "wifi ack" packets.
To address this I have applied the same logic that is currently in place so
that the sk_refcnt will be forced to stay at least 1, or we will not
provide an skb to return in the sk_error_queue.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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