[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "rtnetlink: release net refcnt on error in do_setlink()" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    rtnetlink: release net refcnt on error in do_setlink()

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.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-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt3.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From e219e662fa54df4679d45840d2e7f87ea73bc010 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:16:15 +0100
Subject: rtnetlink: release net refcnt on error in do_setlink()

commit e0ebde0e131b529fd721b24f62872def5ec3718c upstream.

rtnl_link_get_net() holds a reference on the 'struct net', we need to release
it in case of error.

CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Fixes: b51642f6d77b ("net: Enable a userns root rtnl calls that are safe for unprivilged users")
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index e0b5ca349049..48c2be43f856 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1490,6 +1490,7 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb,
 			goto errout;
 		}
 		if (!netlink_ns_capable(skb, net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
+			put_net(net);
 			err = -EPERM;
 			goto errout;
 		}
--
2.1.3