[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_send_unicast_reply()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_send_unicast_reply()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt13.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 7e652b26ac57bd29a894a4e19d3dda6abfb05d13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasily Averin <vvs at parallels.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 16:24:02 +0400
Subject: ipv4: dst_entry leak in ip_send_unicast_reply()

[ Upstream commit 4062090e3e5caaf55bed4523a69f26c3265cc1d2 ]

ip_setup_cork() called inside ip_append_data() steals dst entry from rt to cork
and in case errors in __ip_append_data() nobody frees stolen dst entry

Fixes: 2e77d89b2fa8 ("net: avoid a pair of dst_hold()/dst_release() in ip_append_data()")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs at parallels.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_output.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 5352214..444d7f3 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -1488,6 +1488,7 @@ void ip_send_unicast_reply(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr,
 	struct sk_buff *nskb;
 	struct sock *sk;
 	struct inet_sock *inet;
+	int err;

 	if (ip_options_echo(&replyopts.opt.opt, skb))
 		return;
@@ -1526,8 +1527,13 @@ void ip_send_unicast_reply(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr,
 	sock_net_set(sk, net);
 	__skb_queue_head_init(&sk->sk_write_queue);
 	sk->sk_sndbuf = sysctl_wmem_default;
-	ip_append_data(sk, &fl4, ip_reply_glue_bits, arg->iov->iov_base, len, 0,
-		       &ipc, &rt, MSG_DONTWAIT);
+	err = ip_append_data(sk, &fl4, ip_reply_glue_bits, arg->iov->iov_base,
+			     len, 0, &ipc, &rt, MSG_DONTWAIT);
+	if (unlikely(err)) {
+		ip_flush_pending_frames(sk);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	nskb = skb_peek(&sk->sk_write_queue);
 	if (nskb) {
 		if (arg->csumoffset >= 0)
@@ -1539,7 +1545,7 @@ void ip_send_unicast_reply(struct net *net, struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr,
 		skb_set_queue_mapping(nskb, skb_get_queue_mapping(skb));
 		ip_push_pending_frames(sk, &fl4);
 	}
-
+out:
 	put_cpu_var(unicast_sock);

 	ip_rt_put(rt);
--
1.9.1