Re: Please cherry-pick 5edabca9d4cf (CVE-2017-6074) for all stable kernels,Please cherry-pick 5edabca9d4cf (CVE-2017-6074) for all stable kernels

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From: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 18:35:04 +0100

> Hi,
> 
> haven't seen commit
> 
>> From 5edabca9d4cff7f1f2b68f0bac55ef99d9798ba4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:22:46 +0100
>> Subject: dccp: fix freeing skb too early for IPV6_RECVPKTINFO
>> 
>> In the current DCCP implementation an skb for a DCCP_PKT_REQUEST packet
>> is forcibly freed via __kfree_skb in dccp_rcv_state_process if
>> dccp_v6_conn_request successfully returns.
>> 
>> However, if IPV6_RECVPKTINFO is set on a socket, the address of the skb
>> is saved to ireq->pktopts and the ref count for skb is incremented in
>> dccp_v6_conn_request, so skb is still in use. Nevertheless, it gets freed
>> in dccp_rcv_state_process.
>> 
>> Fix by calling consume_skb instead of doing goto discard and therefore
>> calling __kfree_skb.
>> 
>> Similar fixes for TCP:
>> 
>> fb7e2399ec17f1004c0e0ccfd17439f8759ede01 [TCP]: skb is unexpectedly freed.
>> 0aea76d35c9651d55bbaf746e7914e5f9ae5a25d tcp: SYN packets are now
>> simply consumed
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> in recent LTS kernel releases (3.2.85, 3.16.40, 4.4.51, 4.9.12...) nor
> found any information that this patch is queued.
> 
> Could you please cherry-pick?

Please be patient.  I do -stable submissions every one or two weeks, and
if you see it listed at:

	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?submitter=&state=*&q=&archive=

Then I have it queued up and you don't need to ask if it will be sent or
not.

Thank you.



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