This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
netlink: Add missing goto statement to netlink_insert
to the 4.1-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:
netlink-add-missing-goto-statement-to-netlink_insert.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From [email protected] Tue Dec 8 22:28:59 2015
From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 14:13:19 +0800
Subject: netlink: Add missing goto statement to netlink_insert
To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <[email protected]>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]>, Florian Weimer
<[email protected]>, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], jannik Winkel <[email protected]>, Marco
Schinkel <[email protected]>, "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Disposition: inline
From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
The backport of 1f770c0a09da855a2b51af6d19de97fb955eca85 ("netlink:
Fix autobind race condition that leads to zero port ID") missed a
goto statement, which causes netlink to break subtly.
This was discovered by Stefan Priebe <[email protected]>.
Fixes: 4e2776241766 ("netlink: Fix autobind race condition that...")
Reported-by: Stefan Priebe <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Philipp Hahn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1118,6 +1118,7 @@ static int netlink_insert(struct sock *s
if (err == -EEXIST)
err = -EADDRINUSE;
sock_put(sk);
+ goto err;
}
/* We need to ensure that the socket is hashed and visible. */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-4.1/netlink-add-missing-goto-statement-to-netlink_insert.patch
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