3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 @@ -912,11 +912,17 @@ 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, -- 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