Speaking of orphans, AF_ECONET might be a good candidate for
the deprecation schedule. It has no listed maintainer and
no known users.
Anyways, applied and pushed to net-next-2.6
econet: Use sock_orphan() instead of open-coded (and buggy) variant.
It doesn't grab the sk_callback_lock, it doesn't NULL out
the sk->sk_sleep waitqueue pointer, etc.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/econet/af_econet.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index 7c9bb13..d35127b 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -573,9 +573,7 @@ static int econet_release(struct socket *sock)
sk->sk_state_change(sk); /* It is useless. Just for sanity. */
- sock->sk = NULL;
- sk->sk_socket = NULL;
- sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_DEAD);
+ sock_orphan(sk);
/* Purge queues */
--
1.5.5.1.308.g1fbb5