Refcount socket Dirents correctly.

This should fix the socket Dirent memory leak.

fs.NewFile takes a new reference. It should hold the *only* reference.
DecRef that socket Dirent.

Before the globalDirentMap was introduced, a mis-refcounted Dirent
would be garbage collected when all references to it were gone. For
socket Dirents, this meant that they would be garbage collected when
the associated fs.Files disappeared.

After the globalDirentMap, Dirents *must* be reference-counted
correctly to be garbage collected, as Dirents remove themselves
from the global map when their refcount goes to -1 (see Dirent.destroy).
That removes the last pointer to that Dirent.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 196878973
Change-Id: Ic7afcd1de97c7101ccb13be5fc31de0fb50963f0

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pkg/sentry/socket/netlink/provider.go b/pkg/sentry/socket/netlink/provider.go
index 36800da4d..e874216f4 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/socket/netlink/provider.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/socket/netlink/provider.go
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ func (*socketProvider) Socket(t *kernel.Task, stype unix.SockType, protocol int)
 	}
 
 	d := socket.NewDirent(t, netlinkSocketDevice)
+	defer d.DecRef()
 	return fs.NewFile(t, d, fs.FileFlags{Read: true, Write: true}, s), nil
 }