This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent to the 4.9-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: ipv6-dccp-do-not-inherit-ipv6_mc_list-from-parent.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Wed May 31 09:13:34 JST 2017 From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 May 2017 16:59:54 -0700 Subject: ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 83eaddab4378db256d00d295bda6ca997cd13a52 ] 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/dccp/ipv6.c | 6 ++++++ net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/net/dccp/ipv6.c +++ b/net/dccp/ipv6.c @@ -426,6 +426,9 @@ static struct sock *dccp_v6_request_recv newsk->sk_backlog_rcv = dccp_v4_do_rcv; newnp->pktoptions = NULL; newnp->opt = NULL; + newnp->ipv6_mc_list = NULL; + newnp->ipv6_ac_list = NULL; + newnp->ipv6_fl_list = NULL; newnp->mcast_oif = inet6_iif(skb); newnp->mcast_hops = ipv6_hdr(skb)->hop_limit; @@ -490,6 +493,9 @@ static struct sock *dccp_v6_request_recv /* Clone RX bits */ newnp->rxopt.all = np->rxopt.all; + newnp->ipv6_mc_list = NULL; + newnp->ipv6_ac_list = NULL; + newnp->ipv6_fl_list = NULL; newnp->pktoptions = NULL; newnp->opt = NULL; newnp->mcast_oif = inet6_iif(skb); --- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c @@ -1046,6 +1046,7 @@ static struct sock *tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock newtp->af_specific = &tcp_sock_ipv6_mapped_specific; #endif + newnp->ipv6_mc_list = NULL; newnp->ipv6_ac_list = NULL; newnp->ipv6_fl_list = NULL; newnp->pktoptions = NULL; @@ -1115,6 +1116,7 @@ static struct sock *tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock First: no IPv4 options. */ newinet->inet_opt = NULL; + newnp->ipv6_mc_list = NULL; newnp->ipv6_ac_list = NULL; newnp->ipv6_fl_list = NULL; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ipv6-dccp-do-not-inherit-ipv6_mc_list-from-parent.patch queue-4.9/ipv4-add-reference-counting-to-metrics.patch