This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sctp: do not inherit ipv6_{mc|ac|fl}_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: sctp-do-not-inherit-ipv6_-mc-ac-fl-_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: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 07:16:40 -0700 Subject: sctp: do not inherit ipv6_{mc|ac|fl}_list from parent From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit fdcee2cbb8438702ea1b328fb6e0ac5e9a40c7f8 ] SCTP needs fixes similar to 83eaddab4378 ("ipv6/dccp: do not inherit ipv6_mc_list from parent"), otherwise bad things can happen. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/sctp/ipv6.c +++ b/net/sctp/ipv6.c @@ -678,6 +678,9 @@ static struct sock *sctp_v6_create_accep newnp = inet6_sk(newsk); memcpy(newnp, np, sizeof(struct ipv6_pinfo)); + newnp->ipv6_mc_list = NULL; + newnp->ipv6_ac_list = NULL; + newnp->ipv6_fl_list = NULL; rcu_read_lock(); opt = rcu_dereference(np->opt); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ipv6-fix-out-of-bound-writes-in-__ip6_append_data.patch queue-4.9/tcp-eliminate-negative-reordering-in-tcp_clean_rtx_queue.patch queue-4.9/dccp-tcp-do-not-inherit-mc_list-from-parent.patch queue-4.9/tcp-avoid-fragmenting-peculiar-skbs-in-sack.patch queue-4.9/netem-fix-skb_orphan_partial.patch queue-4.9/net-fix-compile-error-in-skb_orphan_partial.patch queue-4.9/ipv6-dccp-do-not-inherit-ipv6_mc_list-from-parent.patch queue-4.9/sctp-do-not-inherit-ipv6_-mc-ac-fl-_list-from-parent.patch queue-4.9/ipv4-add-reference-counting-to-metrics.patch queue-4.9/tcp-avoid-fastopen-api-to-be-used-on-af_unspec.patch