This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: fix bad free of addrconf_init_net
to the 3.8-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-bad-free-of-addrconf_init_net.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8c2c2758276caff3260b3fd6de56ea7114aeb434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:52:45 +0800
Subject: ipv6: fix bad free of addrconf_init_net
From: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit a79ca223e029aa4f09abb337accf1812c900a800 ]
Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 26 ++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -4787,26 +4787,20 @@ static void addrconf_sysctl_unregister(s
static int __net_init addrconf_init_net(struct net *net)
{
- int err;
+ int err = -ENOMEM;
struct ipv6_devconf *all, *dflt;
- err = -ENOMEM;
- all = &ipv6_devconf;
- dflt = &ipv6_devconf_dflt;
+ all = kmemdup(&ipv6_devconf, sizeof(ipv6_devconf), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (all == NULL)
+ goto err_alloc_all;
- if (!net_eq(net, &init_net)) {
- all = kmemdup(all, sizeof(ipv6_devconf), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (all == NULL)
- goto err_alloc_all;
+ dflt = kmemdup(&ipv6_devconf_dflt, sizeof(ipv6_devconf_dflt), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (dflt == NULL)
+ goto err_alloc_dflt;
- dflt = kmemdup(dflt, sizeof(ipv6_devconf_dflt), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (dflt == NULL)
- goto err_alloc_dflt;
- } else {
- /* these will be inherited by all namespaces */
- dflt->autoconf = ipv6_defaults.autoconf;
- dflt->disable_ipv6 = ipv6_defaults.disable_ipv6;
- }
+ /* these will be inherited by all namespaces */
+ dflt->autoconf = ipv6_defaults.autoconf;
+ dflt->disable_ipv6 = ipv6_defaults.disable_ipv6;
net->ipv6.devconf_all = all;
net->ipv6.devconf_dflt = dflt;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from honkiko@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/ipv6-fix-bad-free-of-addrconf_init_net.patch
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