This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled strparser: Fix sign of err codes 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: strparser-fix-sign-of-err-codes.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 Wed Apr 11 10:26:56 CEST 2018 From: Dave Watson <davejwatson@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:31:21 -0700 Subject: strparser: Fix sign of err codes From: Dave Watson <davejwatson@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit cd00edc179863848abab5cc5683de5b7b5f70954 ] strp_parser_err is called with a negative code everywhere, which then calls abort_parser with a negative code. strp_msg_timeout calls abort_parser directly with a positive code. Negate ETIMEDOUT to match signed-ness of other calls. The default abort_parser callback, strp_abort_strp, sets sk->sk_err to err. Also negate the error here so sk_err always holds a positive value, as the rest of the net code expects. Currently a negative sk_err can result in endless loops, or user code that thinks it actually sent/received err bytes. Found while testing net/tls_sw recv path. Fixes: 43a0c6751a322847 ("strparser: Stream parser for messages") Signed-off-by: Dave Watson <davejwatson@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/strparser/strparser.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/strparser/strparser.c +++ b/net/strparser/strparser.c @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static void strp_abort_rx_strp(struct st strp->rx_stopped = 1; /* Report an error on the lower socket */ - csk->sk_err = err; + csk->sk_err = -err; csk->sk_error_report(csk); } @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ static void strp_rx_msg_timeout(unsigned /* Message assembly timed out */ STRP_STATS_INCR(strp->stats.rx_msg_timeouts); lock_sock(strp->sk); - strp->cb.abort_parser(strp, ETIMEDOUT); + strp->cb.abort_parser(strp, -ETIMEDOUT); release_sock(strp->sk); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from davejwatson@xxxxxx are queue-4.9/strparser-fix-sign-of-err-codes.patch