[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "netfilter: nf_log: release skbuff on nlmsg put failure" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    netfilter: nf_log: release skbuff on nlmsg put failure

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-ckt2.

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 7ef36feaddbf51e714216a12bfee58cf972371f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Houcheng Lin <houcheng at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:36:08 +0200
Subject: netfilter: nf_log: release skbuff on nlmsg put failure

commit b51d3fa364885a2c1e1668f88776c67c95291820 upstream.

The kernel should reserve enough room in the skb so that the DONE
message can always be appended.  However, in case of e.g. new attribute
erronously not being size-accounted for, __nfulnl_send() will still
try to put next nlmsg into this full skbuf, causing the skb to be stuck
forever and blocking delivery of further messages.

Fix issue by releasing skb immediately after nlmsg_put error and
WARN() so we can track down the cause of such size mismatch.

[ fw at strlen.de: add tailroom/len info to WARN ]

Signed-off-by: Houcheng Lin <houcheng at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw at strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c | 17 ++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
index 8f415d6889fe..dd9fb9de9f1d 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_log.c
@@ -346,26 +346,25 @@ nfulnl_alloc_skb(struct net *net, u32 peer_portid, unsigned int inst_size,
 	return skb;
 }

-static int
+static void
 __nfulnl_send(struct nfulnl_instance *inst)
 {
-	int status = -1;
-
 	if (inst->qlen > 1) {
 		struct nlmsghdr *nlh = nlmsg_put(inst->skb, 0, 0,
 						 NLMSG_DONE,
 						 sizeof(struct nfgenmsg),
 						 0);
-		if (!nlh)
+		if (WARN_ONCE(!nlh, "bad nlskb size: %u, tailroom %d\n",
+			      inst->skb->len, skb_tailroom(inst->skb))) {
+			kfree_skb(inst->skb);
 			goto out;
+		}
 	}
-	status = nfnetlink_unicast(inst->skb, inst->net, inst->peer_portid,
-				   MSG_DONTWAIT);
-
+	nfnetlink_unicast(inst->skb, inst->net, inst->peer_portid,
+			  MSG_DONTWAIT);
+out:
 	inst->qlen = 0;
 	inst->skb = NULL;
-out:
-	return status;
 }

 static void
--
2.1.0