This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ipv6: fix possible mem leaks in ipv6_make_skb()

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ipv6-fix-possible-mem-leaks-in-ipv6_make_skb.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Sat Jan 13 14:28:20 CET 2018

From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 03:45:49 -0800 Subject: ipv6: fix possible mem leaks in ipv6_make_skb()

From: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com

[ Upstream commit 862c03ee1deb7e19e0f9931682e0294ecd1fcaf9 ]

ip6_setup_cork() might return an error, while memory allocations have been done and must be rolled back.

Fixes: 6422398c2ab0 ("ipv6: introduce ipv6_make_skb") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Cc: Vlad Yasevich vyasevich@gmail.com Reported-by: Mike Maloney maloney@google.com Acked-by: Mike Maloney maloney@google.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c @@ -1785,8 +1785,10 @@ struct sk_buff *ip6_make_skb(struct sock cork.base.opt = NULL; v6_cork.opt = NULL; err = ip6_setup_cork(sk, &cork, &v6_cork, hlimit, tclass, opt, rt, fl6); - if (err) + if (err) { + ip6_cork_release(&cork, &v6_cork); return ERR_PTR(err); + }

if (dontfrag < 0) dontfrag = inet6_sk(sk)->dontfrag;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@google.com are

queue-4.4/lan78xx-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/cx82310_eth-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/sr9700-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/smsc75xx-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/ipv6-fix-possible-mem-leaks-in-ipv6_make_skb.patch