This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: llc: fix use after free in llc_ui_recvmsg to the 3.12-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: net-llc-fix-use-after-free-in-llc_ui_recvmsg.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.12 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 Mon Jan 13 09:44:41 PST 2014 From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 23:40:50 +0100 Subject: net: llc: fix use after free in llc_ui_recvmsg From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4d231b76eef6c4a6bd9c96769e191517765942cb ] While commit 30a584d944fb fixes datagram interface in LLC, a use after free bug has been introduced for SOCK_STREAM sockets that do not make use of MSG_PEEK. The flow is as follow ... if (!(flags & MSG_PEEK)) { ... sk_eat_skb(sk, skb, false); ... } ... if (used + offset < skb->len) continue; ... where sk_eat_skb() calls __kfree_skb(). Therefore, cache original length and work on skb_len to check partial reads. Fixes: 30a584d944fb ("[LLX]: SOCK_DGRAM interface fixes") Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/llc/af_llc.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/llc/af_llc.c +++ b/net/llc/af_llc.c @@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static int llc_ui_recvmsg(struct kiocb * unsigned long cpu_flags; size_t copied = 0; u32 peek_seq = 0; - u32 *seq; + u32 *seq, skb_len; unsigned long used; int target; /* Read at least this many bytes */ long timeo; @@ -812,6 +812,7 @@ static int llc_ui_recvmsg(struct kiocb * } continue; found_ok_skb: + skb_len = skb->len; /* Ok so how much can we use? */ used = skb->len - offset; if (len < used) @@ -844,7 +845,7 @@ static int llc_ui_recvmsg(struct kiocb * } /* Partial read */ - if (used + offset < skb->len) + if (used + offset < skb_len) continue; } while (len > 0); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.12/net-inet_diag-zero-out-uninitialized-idiag_-src-dst-fields.patch queue-3.12/packet-fix-send-path-when-running-with-proto-0.patch queue-3.12/net-llc-fix-use-after-free-in-llc_ui_recvmsg.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html