This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv4: fix a potential use after free in ip_tunnel_core.c to the 3.14-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: ipv4-fix-a-potential-use-after-free-in-ip_tunnel_core.c.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 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 Fri Nov 7 11:37:05 PST 2014 From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:53:23 +0800 Subject: ipv4: fix a potential use after free in ip_tunnel_core.c From: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1245dfc8cadb258386fcd27df38215a0eccb1f17 ] pskb_may_pull() maybe change skb->data and make eth pointer oboslete, so set eth after pskb_may_pull() Fixes:3d7b46cd("ip_tunnel: push generic protocol handling to ip_tunnel module") Cc: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c +++ b/net/ipv4/ip_tunnel_core.c @@ -91,11 +91,12 @@ int iptunnel_pull_header(struct sk_buff skb_pull_rcsum(skb, hdr_len); if (inner_proto == htons(ETH_P_TEB)) { - struct ethhdr *eh = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data; + struct ethhdr *eh; if (unlikely(!pskb_may_pull(skb, ETH_HLEN))) return -ENOMEM; + eh = (struct ethhdr *)skb->data; if (likely(ntohs(eh->h_proto) >= ETH_P_802_3_MIN)) skb->protocol = eh->h_proto; else Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from roy.qing.li@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/vxlan-fix-a-use-after-free-in-vxlan_encap_bypass.patch queue-3.14/vxlan-using-pskb_may_pull-as-early-as-possible.patch queue-3.14/vxlan-fix-a-free-after-use.patch queue-3.14/ipv4-fix-a-potential-use-after-free-in-ip_tunnel_core.c.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