This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipvs: handle ip_vs_fill_iph_skb_off failure to the 4.4-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: ipvs-handle-ip_vs_fill_iph_skb_off-failure.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 3f20efba41916ee17ce82f0fdd02581ada2872b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:52:02 +0100 Subject: ipvs: handle ip_vs_fill_iph_skb_off failure From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> commit 3f20efba41916ee17ce82f0fdd02581ada2872b2 upstream. ip_vs_fill_iph_skb_off() may not find an IP header, and gcc has determined that ip_vs_sip_fill_param() then incorrectly accesses the protocol fields: net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe_sip.c: In function 'ip_vs_sip_fill_param': net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe_sip.c:76:5: error: 'iph.protocol' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] if (iph.protocol != IPPROTO_UDP) ^ net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe_sip.c:81:10: error: 'iph.len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Werror=maybe-uninitialized] dataoff = iph.len + sizeof(struct udphdr); ^ This adds a check for the ip_vs_fill_iph_skb_off() return code before looking at the ip header data returned from it. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Fixes: b0e010c527de ("ipvs: replace ip_vs_fill_ip4hdr with ip_vs_fill_iph_skb_off") Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe_sip.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe_sip.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_pe_sip.c @@ -70,10 +70,10 @@ ip_vs_sip_fill_param(struct ip_vs_conn_p const char *dptr; int retc; - ip_vs_fill_iph_skb(p->af, skb, false, &iph); + retc = ip_vs_fill_iph_skb(p->af, skb, false, &iph); /* Only useful with UDP */ - if (iph.protocol != IPPROTO_UDP) + if (!retc || iph.protocol != IPPROTO_UDP) return -EINVAL; /* todo: IPv6 fragments: * I think this only should be done for the first fragment. /HS Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from arnd@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/lpfc-fix-misleading-indentation.patch queue-4.4/ipvs-handle-ip_vs_fill_iph_skb_off-failure.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html