libbpf: Use SOCK_CLOEXEC when opening the netlink socket

[ Upstream commit 58bfd95b554f1a23d01228672f86bb489bdbf4ba ]

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
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
index 88416be2bf994355918892fa52881c9be6c3c3de..5ec8043c71bca74a28ec7b63766d3eccda5f2f8c 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/netlink.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ 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;