This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst() to the 3.18-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-fix-dst-refcnt-leak-in-sctp_v6_get_dst.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Mar 8 10:42:32 PST 2018 From: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 15:10:35 +0300 Subject: sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst() From: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 957d761cf91cdbb175ad7d8f5472336a4d54dbf2 ] When going through the bind address list in sctp_v6_get_dst() and the previously found address is better ('matchlen > bmatchlen'), the code continues to the next iteration without releasing currently held destination. Fix it by releasing 'bdst' before continue to the next iteration, and instead of introducing one more '!IS_ERR(bdst)' check for dst_release(), move the already existed one right after ip6_dst_lookup_flow(), i.e. we shouldn't proceed further if we get an error for the route lookup. Fixes: dbc2b5e9a09e ("sctp: fix src address selection if using secondary addresses for ipv6") Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sctp/ipv6.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/sctp/ipv6.c +++ b/net/sctp/ipv6.c @@ -323,8 +323,10 @@ static void sctp_v6_get_dst(struct sctp_ final_p = fl6_update_dst(fl6, rcu_dereference(np->opt), &final); bdst = ip6_dst_lookup_flow(sk, fl6, final_p); - if (!IS_ERR(bdst) && - ipv6_chk_addr(dev_net(bdst->dev), + if (IS_ERR(bdst)) + continue; + + if (ipv6_chk_addr(dev_net(bdst->dev), &laddr->a.v6.sin6_addr, bdst->dev, 1)) { if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dst)) dst_release(dst); @@ -333,8 +335,10 @@ static void sctp_v6_get_dst(struct sctp_ } bmatchlen = sctp_v6_addr_match_len(daddr, &laddr->a); - if (matchlen > bmatchlen) + if (matchlen > bmatchlen) { + dst_release(bdst); continue; + } if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dst)) dst_release(dst); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexey.kodanev@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/sctp-fix-dst-refcnt-leak-in-sctp_v6_get_dst.patch queue-3.18/udplite-fix-partial-checksum-initialization.patch queue-3.18/sctp-verify-size-of-a-new-chunk-in-_sctp_make_chunk.patch