3.16.62-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a03dc36bdca6b614651fedfcd8559cf914d2d21d upstream. Commit 6d0bfe226116 ("net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.") contains an error in the cleanup path of inet6_init(): when proto_register(&pingv6_prot, 1) fails, we try to unregister &pingv6_prot. When rawv6_init() fails, we skip unregistering &pingv6_prot. Example of panic (triggered by faking a failure of proto_register(&pingv6_prot, 1)): general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI [...] RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x79/0x160 [...] Call Trace: proto_unregister+0xbb/0x550 ? trace_preempt_on+0x6f0/0x6f0 ? sock_no_shutdown+0x10/0x10 inet6_init+0x153/0x1b8 Fixes: 6d0bfe226116 ("net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.") Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c @@ -860,14 +860,14 @@ static int __init inet6_init(void) err = proto_register(&pingv6_prot, 1); if (err) - goto out_unregister_ping_proto; + goto out_unregister_raw_proto; /* We MUST register RAW sockets before we create the ICMP6, * IGMP6, or NDISC control sockets. */ err = rawv6_init(); if (err) - goto out_unregister_raw_proto; + goto out_unregister_ping_proto; /* Register the family here so that the init calls below will * be able to create sockets. (?? is this dangerous ??)