This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: fix possible mem leaks in ipv6_make_skb() 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-fix-possible-mem-leaks-in-ipv6_make_skb.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 Sat Jan 13 10:51:19 CET 2018 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 03:45:49 -0800 Subject: ipv6: fix possible mem leaks in ipv6_make_skb() From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 862c03ee1deb7e19e0f9931682e0294ecd1fcaf9 ] ip6_setup_cork() might return an error, while memory allocations have been done and must be rolled back. Fixes: 6422398c2ab0 ("ipv6: introduce ipv6_make_skb") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Mike Maloney <maloney@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Mike Maloney <maloney@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -1800,9 +1800,10 @@ struct sk_buff *ip6_make_skb(struct sock cork.base.opt = NULL; v6_cork.opt = NULL; err = ip6_setup_cork(sk, &cork, &v6_cork, ipc6, rt, fl6); - if (err) + if (err) { + ip6_cork_release(&cork, &v6_cork); return ERR_PTR(err); - + } if (ipc6->dontfrag < 0) ipc6->dontfrag = inet6_sk(sk)->dontfrag; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/lan78xx-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.9/cx82310_eth-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.9/sr9700-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.9/smsc75xx-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.9/ipv6-fix-possible-mem-leaks-in-ipv6_make_skb.patch