4.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 03c2778a938aaba0893f6d6cdc29511d91a79848 ] Neither the failure or success paths of ping_v6_sendmsg release the dst it acquires. This leads to a flood of warnings from "net/core/dst.c:288 dst_release" on older kernels that don't have 8bf4ada2e21378816b28205427ee6b0e1ca4c5f1 backported. That patch optimistically hoped this had been fixed post 3.10, but it seems at least one case wasn't, where I've seen this triggered a lot from machines doing unprivileged icmp sockets. Cc: Martin Lau <kafai@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ping.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ping.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ping.c @@ -122,8 +122,10 @@ static int ping_v6_sendmsg(struct sock * rt = (struct rt6_info *) dst; np = inet6_sk(sk); - if (!np) - return -EBADF; + if (!np) { + err = -EBADF; + goto dst_err_out; + } if (!fl6.flowi6_oif && ipv6_addr_is_multicast(&fl6.daddr)) fl6.flowi6_oif = np->mcast_oif; @@ -160,6 +162,9 @@ static int ping_v6_sendmsg(struct sock * } release_sock(sk); +dst_err_out: + dst_release(dst); + if (err) return err; -- 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