This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt() 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-xfrm-handle-errors-reported-by-xfrm6_find_1stfragopt.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 Thu Jun 8 08:58:26 CEST 2017 From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 13:15:41 +0100 Subject: ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt() From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 6e80ac5cc992ab6256c3dae87f7e57db15e1a58c ] xfrm6_find_1stfragopt() may now return an error code and we must not treat it as a length. Fixes: 2423496af35d ("ipv6: Prevent overrun when parsing v6 header options") Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/xfrm6_mode_ro.c | 2 ++ net/ipv6/xfrm6_mode_transport.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_mode_ro.c +++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_mode_ro.c @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ static int xfrm6_ro_output(struct xfrm_s iph = ipv6_hdr(skb); hdr_len = x->type->hdr_offset(x, skb, &prevhdr); + if (hdr_len < 0) + return hdr_len; skb_set_mac_header(skb, (prevhdr - x->props.header_len) - skb->data); skb_set_network_header(skb, -x->props.header_len); skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + hdr_len; --- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_mode_transport.c +++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_mode_transport.c @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ static int xfrm6_transport_output(struct iph = ipv6_hdr(skb); hdr_len = x->type->hdr_offset(x, skb, &prevhdr); + if (hdr_len < 0) + return hdr_len; skb_set_mac_header(skb, (prevhdr - x->props.header_len) - skb->data); skb_set_network_header(skb, -x->props.header_len); skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + hdr_len; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ipv6-xfrm-handle-errors-reported-by-xfrm6_find_1stfragopt.patch queue-4.9/ipv6-fix-leak-in-ipv6_gso_segment.patch