This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netfilter: x_tables: unlock on error in xt_find_table_lock()
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:
netfilter-x_tables-unlock-on-error-in-xt_find_table_lock.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 Mar 22 14:40:23 CET 2018
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:57:56 +0300
Subject: netfilter: x_tables: unlock on error in xt_find_table_lock()
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 7dde07e9c53617549d67dd3e1d791496d0d3868e ]
According to my static checker we should unlock here before the return.
That seems reasonable to me as well.
Fixes" b9e69e127397 ("netfilter: xtables: don't hook tables by default")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
@@ -1006,8 +1006,10 @@ struct xt_table *xt_find_table_lock(stru
list_for_each_entry(t, &init_net.xt.tables[af], list) {
if (strcmp(t->name, name))
continue;
- if (!try_module_get(t->me))
+ if (!try_module_get(t->me)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&xt[af].mutex);
return NULL;
+ }
mutex_unlock(&xt[af].mutex);
if (t->table_init(net) != 0) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/netfilter-x_tables-unlock-on-error-in-xt_find_table_lock.patch
queue-4.9/asoc-intel-skylake-uninitialized-variable-in-probe_codec.patch
queue-4.9/mmc-host-omap_hsmmc-checking-for-null-instead-of-is_err.patch
queue-4.9/qed-unlock-on-error-in-qed_vf_pf_acquire.patch
queue-4.9/hsi-ssi_protocol-double-free-in-ssip_pn_xmit.patch
queue-4.9/cifs-small-underflow-in-cnvrtdosunixtm.patch
queue-4.9/ib-rdmavt-restore-irqs-on-error-path-in-rvt_create_ah.patch