From: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:58:58 +0000 (+0530) Subject: libbpf: Use SOCK_CLOEXEC when opening the netlink socket X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=58bfd95b554f1a23d01228672f86bb489bdbf4ba;p=linux.git libbpf: Use SOCK_CLOEXEC when opening the netlink socket 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: 949abbe88436 ("libbpf: add function to setup XDP") Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210317115857.6536-1-memxor@gmail.com --- diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c index 4dd73de00b6f1..d2cb28e9ef52e 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c @@ -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;