This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: ip6_sk_dst_check() must not assume ipv6 dst
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:
ipv6-ip6_sk_dst_check-must-not-assume-ipv6-dst.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 aa9d96ee4078613e40f7a99b75bb3cd22de17cd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:15:07 -0700
Subject: ipv6: ip6_sk_dst_check() must not assume ipv6 dst
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit a963a37d384d71ad43b3e9e79d68d42fbe0901f3 ]
It's possible to use AF_INET6 sockets and to connect to an IPv4
destination. After this, socket dst cache is a pointer to a rtable,
not rt6_info.
ip6_sk_dst_check() should check the socket dst cache is IPv6, or else
various corruptions/crashes can happen.
Dave Jones can reproduce immediate crash with
trinity -q -l off -n -c sendmsg -c connect
With help from Hannes Frederic Sowa
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -925,11 +925,17 @@ static struct dst_entry *ip6_sk_dst_chec
const struct flowi6 *fl6)
{
struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk);
- struct rt6_info *rt = (struct rt6_info *)dst;
+ struct rt6_info *rt;
if (!dst)
goto out;
+ if (dst->ops->family != AF_INET6) {
+ dst_release(dst);
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ rt = (struct rt6_info *)dst;
/* Yes, checking route validity in not connected
* case is not very simple. Take into account,
* that we do not support routing by source, TOS,
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.0/neighbour-fix-a-race-in-neigh_destroy.patch
queue-3.0/vlan-fix-a-race-in-egress-prio-management.patch
queue-3.0/ipv6-ip6_sk_dst_check-must-not-assume-ipv6-dst.patch
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