This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xfrm6: release dev before returning error
to the 3.0-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:
xfrm6-release-dev-before-returning-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f2e07c264fcbe7ce46ee9e3daa94e2356d2503d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 22:40:00 +0000
Subject: xfrm6: release dev before returning error
From: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 84c4a9dfbf430861e7588d95ae3ff61535dca351 ]
We forget to call dev_put() on error path in xfrm6_fill_dst(),
its caller doesn't handle this.
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_policy.c
@@ -96,8 +96,10 @@ static int xfrm6_fill_dst(struct xfrm_ds
dev_hold(dev);
xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
- if (!xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev)
+ if (!xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_idev) {
+ dev_put(dev);
return -ENODEV;
+ }
xdst->u.rt6.rt6i_peer = rt->rt6i_peer;
if (rt->rt6i_peer)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amwang@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.0/xfrm6-release-dev-before-returning-error.patch
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