Re: [PATCH] net/smc: release the internal TCP sock on IPPROTO_SMC socket creation failure

> IPPROTO_SMC sockets wrap an internal TCP sock ("clcsock"), which is
> created by smc_inet_init_sock() via smc_create_clcsk() from the
> proto->init hook of inet_create()/inet6_create(). When socket
> creation fails after proto->init has succeeded - for example when a
> cgroup BPF program attached to BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE denies the
> socket - inet_create() calls sk_common_release(), which only invokes
> sk_prot->destroy if it is set. Neither smc_inet_prot nor
> smc_inet6_prot defines .destroy, and the sock destructor smc_destruct()
> returns early unless sk_state is SMC_CLOSED (it is SMC_INIT here), so
> the internal TCP sock is never released.
> 
> As a result, every failing socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SMC)
> call leaks one tcp_sock. Any unprivileged task able to attach a
> deny-all BPF_CGROUP_INET_SOCK_CREATE program to its own cgroup (or a
> task confined by an LSM policy) can grow kernel memory unboundedly.
> [ ... ]
> 
> Fixes: d25a92ccae6b ("net/smc: Introduce IPPROTO_SMC")
> Reported-by: Abaci <[email protected]>
> Assisted-by: abaci:qwen3.8-max
> Signed-off-by: Chuyf26 <[email protected]>

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