This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: Do not leak throw route references to the 4.11-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-do-not-leak-throw-route-references.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 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 29 18:58:00 CEST 2017 From: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:29:25 +0300 Subject: ipv6: Do not leak throw route references From: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 07f615574f8ac499875b21c1142f26308234a92c ] While commit 73ba57bfae4a ("ipv6: fix backtracking for throw routes") does good job on error propagation to the fib_rules_lookup() in fib rules core framework that also corrects throw routes handling, it does not solve route reference leakage problem happened when we return -EAGAIN to the fib_rules_lookup() and leave routing table entry referenced in arg->result. If rule with matched throw route isn't last matched in the list we overwrite arg->result losing reference on throw route stored previously forever. We also partially revert commit ab997ad40839 ("ipv6: fix the incorrect return value of throw route") since we never return routing table entry with dst.error == -EAGAIN when CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES is on. Also there is no point to check for RTF_REJECT flag since it is always set throw route. Fixes: 73ba57bfae4a ("ipv6: fix backtracking for throw routes") Signed-off-by: Serhey Popovych <serhe.popovych@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c | 22 ++++++---------------- net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c +++ b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c @@ -32,7 +32,6 @@ struct fib6_rule { struct dst_entry *fib6_rule_lookup(struct net *net, struct flowi6 *fl6, int flags, pol_lookup_t lookup) { - struct rt6_info *rt; struct fib_lookup_arg arg = { .lookup_ptr = lookup, .flags = FIB_LOOKUP_NOREF, @@ -44,21 +43,11 @@ struct dst_entry *fib6_rule_lookup(struc fib_rules_lookup(net->ipv6.fib6_rules_ops, flowi6_to_flowi(fl6), flags, &arg); - rt = arg.result; + if (arg.result) + return arg.result; - if (!rt) { - dst_hold(&net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry->dst); - return &net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry->dst; - } - - if (rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_REJECT && - rt->dst.error == -EAGAIN) { - ip6_rt_put(rt); - rt = net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry; - dst_hold(&rt->dst); - } - - return &rt->dst; + dst_hold(&net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry->dst); + return &net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry->dst; } static int fib6_rule_action(struct fib_rule *rule, struct flowi *flp, @@ -121,7 +110,8 @@ static int fib6_rule_action(struct fib_r flp6->saddr = saddr; } err = rt->dst.error; - goto out; + if (err != -EAGAIN) + goto out; } again: ip6_rt_put(rt); --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c @@ -289,8 +289,7 @@ struct dst_entry *fib6_rule_lookup(struc struct rt6_info *rt; rt = lookup(net, net->ipv6.fib6_main_tbl, fl6, flags); - if (rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_REJECT && - rt->dst.error == -EAGAIN) { + if (rt->dst.error == -EAGAIN) { ip6_rt_put(rt); rt = net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry; dst_hold(&rt->dst); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from serhe.popovych@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/rtnetlink-add-ifla_group-to-ifla_policy.patch queue-4.11/ipv6-do-not-leak-throw-route-references.patch