Re: [PATCH net 1/1] net/rose: hold listener socket during call request handling

On 4/20/2026 9:26 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 07:01:51PM +0800, Ren Wei wrote:
>> From: Nan Li <[email protected]>
>>
>> The call request receive path keeps using the listener socket after the
>> lookup lock has been dropped. Keep the listener alive across the
>> remaining validation and child socket setup by taking a reference in the
>> lookup path and releasing it once request handling is finished.
>>
>> This makes listener lifetime handling explicit and avoids races with
>> concurrent socket teardown.
>>
>> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Reported-by: Yifan Wu <[email protected]>
>> Reported-by: Juefei Pu <[email protected]>
>> Reported-by: Xin Liu <[email protected]>
>> Co-developed-by: Yuan Tan <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Nan Li <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Ren Wei <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  net/rose/af_rose.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
>>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <[email protected]>
>
> Sachiko has provided some feedback on this patch.
> I do not believe they relate to shortcomings in this patch,
> and I do not believe they should block progress of this patch.
> You may want to look over them for areas to investigate as follow-up
> (maybe you already did :)
>
> ...


Thanks for your review! Yes this module still has other issues that
haven't been fixed. We'll finish what we're currently working on and
then take a look :)