This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv4: add missing initialization for flowi4_uid to the 4.10-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: ipv4-add-missing-initialization-for-flowi4_uid.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Mar 18 22:03:53 CST 2017 From: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 15:50:52 +0200 Subject: ipv4: add missing initialization for flowi4_uid From: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8bcfd0925ef15f072ba1e7bee2c25e9e1b5fd6ca ] Avoid matching of random stack value for uid when rules are looked up on input route or when RP filter is used. Problem should affect only setups that use ip rules with uid range. Fixes: 622ec2c9d524 ("net: core: add UID to flows, rules, and routes") Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 6 +++--- net/ipv4/route.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ static int __fib_validate_source(struct int ret, no_addr; struct fib_result res; struct flowi4 fl4; - struct net *net; + struct net *net = dev_net(dev); bool dev_match; fl4.flowi4_oif = 0; @@ -332,6 +332,7 @@ static int __fib_validate_source(struct fl4.flowi4_scope = RT_SCOPE_UNIVERSE; fl4.flowi4_tun_key.tun_id = 0; fl4.flowi4_flags = 0; + fl4.flowi4_uid = sock_net_uid(net, NULL); no_addr = idev->ifa_list == NULL; @@ -339,13 +340,12 @@ static int __fib_validate_source(struct trace_fib_validate_source(dev, &fl4); - net = dev_net(dev); if (fib_lookup(net, &fl4, &res, 0)) goto last_resort; if (res.type != RTN_UNICAST && (res.type != RTN_LOCAL || !IN_DEV_ACCEPT_LOCAL(idev))) goto e_inval; - if (!rpf && !fib_num_tclassid_users(dev_net(dev)) && + if (!rpf && !fib_num_tclassid_users(net) && (dev->ifindex != oif || !IN_DEV_TX_REDIRECTS(idev))) goto last_resort; fib_combine_itag(itag, &res); --- a/net/ipv4/route.c +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c @@ -1858,6 +1858,7 @@ static int ip_route_input_slow(struct sk fl4.flowi4_flags = 0; fl4.daddr = daddr; fl4.saddr = saddr; + fl4.flowi4_uid = sock_net_uid(net, NULL); err = fib_lookup(net, &fl4, &res, 0); if (err != 0) { if (!IN_DEV_FORWARD(in_dev)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ja@xxxxxx are queue-4.10/ipv4-mask-tos-for-input-route.patch queue-4.10/ipv4-add-missing-initialization-for-flowi4_uid.patch