Re: [PATCH] net: fix sock_clone reference mismatch with tcpmemcontrol

From: David Miller
Date: Sat Jan 07 2012 - 13:17:17 EST


From: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 10:16:39 +0400

> Sockets can also be created through sock_clone. Because it copies
> all data in the sock structure, it also copies the memcg-related pointer,
> and all should be fine. However, since we now use reference counts in
> socket creation, we are left with some sockets that have no reference
> counts. It matters when we destroy them, since it leads to a mismatch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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