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Commit 8c063211 authored by Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi's avatar Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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libbpf: Use SOCK_CLOEXEC when opening the netlink socket


[ Upstream commit 58bfd95b ]

Otherwise, there exists a small window between the opening and closing
of the socket fd where it may leak into processes launched by some other
thread.

Fixes: 949abbe8 ("libbpf: add function to setup XDP")
Signed-off-by: default avatarKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: default avatarToke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210317115857.6536-1-memxor@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent d5b1065c
1 merge request!363Stable/5.11.11
......@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ static int libbpf_netlink_open(__u32 *nl_pid)
memset(&sa, 0, sizeof(sa));
sa.nl_family = AF_NETLINK;
sock = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ROUTE);
sock = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW | SOCK_CLOEXEC, NETLINK_ROUTE);
if (sock < 0)
return -errno;
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