This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr() to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipv6-fix-potential-struct-net-leak-in-inet6_rtm_geta.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f90703eef697ccb6048feef85527bfb010b7ebb5 Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Feb 22 12:17:47 2024 +0000 ipv6: fix potential "struct net" leak in inet6_rtm_getaddr() [ Upstream commit 10bfd453da64a057bcfd1a49fb6b271c48653cdb ] It seems that if userspace provides a correct IFA_TARGET_NETNSID value but no IFA_ADDRESS and IFA_LOCAL attributes, inet6_rtm_getaddr() returns -EINVAL with an elevated "struct net" refcount. Fixes: 6ecf4c37eb3e ("ipv6: enable IFA_TARGET_NETNSID for RTM_GETADDR") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c index 5a839c5fb1a5a..055230b669cf2 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c @@ -5509,9 +5509,10 @@ static int inet6_rtm_getaddr(struct sk_buff *in_skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh, } addr = extract_addr(tb[IFA_ADDRESS], tb[IFA_LOCAL], &peer); - if (!addr) - return -EINVAL; - + if (!addr) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto errout; + } ifm = nlmsg_data(nlh); if (ifm->ifa_index) dev = dev_get_by_index(tgt_net, ifm->ifa_index);