Re: Fix on ipv6/dccp applicable to stable

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On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Eduardo Valentin <eduval@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I was checking the CVE-2017-9076 [1], which mentions this commit:
>
> commit 83eaddab4378db256d00d295bda6ca997cd13a52
> Author: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue May 9 16:59:54 2017 -0700
>
>     ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent
>
>     Like commit 657831ffc38e ("dccp/tcp: do not inherit mc_list from parent")
>     we should clear ipv6_mc_list etc. for IPv6 sockets too.
>
>     Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
>     Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> And I was wondering if it could simply be sent to stable trees. The change
> can be cherry-picked on 4.9.y, for example.

Yes, this commit should be backported to stable releases together with
the following two commits:

commit 657831ffc38e30092a2d5f03d385d710eb88b09a
Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue May 9 06:29:19 2017 -0700

    dccp/tcp: do not inherit mc_list from parent

commit fdcee2cbb8438702ea1b328fb6e0ac5e9a40c7f8
Author: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Wed May 17 07:16:40 2017 -0700

    sctp: do not inherit ipv6_{mc|ac|fl}_list from parent

Thanks.



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