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

sock: free skb in skb_complete_tx_timestamp on error

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: sock-free-skb-in-skb_complete_tx_timestamp-on-error.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 Sun Dec 31 11:20:35 CET 2017

From: Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:41:06 -0500 Subject: sock: free skb in skb_complete_tx_timestamp on error

From: Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com

[ Upstream commit 35b99dffc3f710cafceee6c8c6ac6a98eb2cb4bf ]

skb_complete_tx_timestamp must ingest the skb it is passed. Call kfree_skb if the skb cannot be enqueued.

Fixes: b245be1f4db1 ("net-timestamp: no-payload only sysctl") Fixes: 9ac25fc06375 ("net: fix socket refcounting in skb_complete_tx_timestamp()") Reported-by: Richard Cochran richardcochran@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn willemb@google.com Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/core/skbuff.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -3676,7 +3676,7 @@ void skb_complete_tx_timestamp(struct sk struct sock *sk = skb->sk;

if (!skb_may_tx_timestamp(sk, false)) - return; + goto err;

/* Take a reference to prevent skb_orphan() from freeing the socket, * but only if the socket refcount is not zero. @@ -3685,7 +3685,11 @@ void skb_complete_tx_timestamp(struct sk *skb_hwtstamps(skb) = *hwtstamps; __skb_complete_tx_timestamp(skb, sk, SCM_TSTAMP_SND); sock_put(sk); + return; } + +err: + kfree_skb(skb); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(skb_complete_tx_timestamp);

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

queue-4.4/sock-free-skb-in-skb_complete_tx_timestamp-on-error.patch