This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: xt_cgroup: initialize info->priv in cgroup_mt_check_v1() to the 4.15-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: netfilter-xt_cgroup-initialize-info-priv-in-cgroup_mt_check_v1.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From ba7cd5d95f25cc6005f687dabdb4e7a6063adda9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:02:47 -0800 Subject: netfilter: xt_cgroup: initialize info->priv in cgroup_mt_check_v1() From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> commit ba7cd5d95f25cc6005f687dabdb4e7a6063adda9 upstream. xt_cgroup_info_v1->priv is an internal pointer only used for kernel, we should not trust what user-space provides. Reported-by: <syzbot+4fbcfcc0d2e6592bd641@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: c38c4597e4bf ("netfilter: implement xt_cgroup cgroup2 path match") Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/xt_cgroup.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/netfilter/xt_cgroup.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_cgroup.c @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ static int cgroup_mt_check_v1(const stru return -EINVAL; } + info->priv = NULL; if (info->has_path) { cgrp = cgroup_get_from_path(info->path); if (IS_ERR(cgrp)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/net_sched-gen_estimator-fix-lockdep-splat.patch queue-4.15/netfilter-xt_cgroup-initialize-info-priv-in-cgroup_mt_check_v1.patch queue-4.15/netfilter-xt_rateest-acquire-xt_rateest_mutex-for-hash-insert.patch