This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
to the 3.18-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:
ipx-call-ipxitf_put-in-ioctl-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ee0d8d8482345ff97a75a7d747efc309f13b0d80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 13:58:53 +0300
Subject: ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit ee0d8d8482345ff97a75a7d747efc309f13b0d80 upstream.
We should call ipxitf_put() if the copy_to_user() fails.
Reported-by: 李强 <liqiang6-s@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipx/af_ipx.c | 5 ++---
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipx/af_ipx.c
+++ b/net/ipx/af_ipx.c
@@ -1168,11 +1168,10 @@ static int ipxitf_ioctl(unsigned int cmd
sipx->sipx_network = ipxif->if_netnum;
memcpy(sipx->sipx_node, ipxif->if_node,
sizeof(sipx->sipx_node));
- rc = -EFAULT;
+ rc = 0;
if (copy_to_user(arg, &ifr, sizeof(ifr)))
- break;
+ rc = -EFAULT;
ipxitf_put(ipxif);
- rc = 0;
break;
}
case SIOCAIPXITFCRT:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/ipx-call-ipxitf_put-in-ioctl-error-path.patch