[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ipv4: Fix ip_local_out_sk by passing the sk into __ip_local_out_sk" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Jan 4 23:23:11 UTC 2016


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

    ipv4: Fix ip_local_out_sk by passing the sk into __ip_local_out_sk

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt1.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 5e7d9f00fd27a61a56f9448592ef668accdd148b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:48:32 -0500
Subject: ipv4: Fix ip_local_out_sk by passing the sk into __ip_local_out_sk

commit fd2874b3bbe832e90ac480971a7a8bd736b629b9 upstream.

In the rare case where sk != skb->sk ip_local_out_sk arranges
to call dst->output differently if the skb is queued or not.
This is a bug.

Fix this bug by passing the sk parameter of ip_local_out_sk through
from ip_local_out_sk to __ip_local_out_sk (skipping __ip_local_out).

Fixes: 7026b1ddb6b8 ("netfilter: Pass socket pointer down through okfn().")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.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 | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
index 6bf89a6..f04d077 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ int ip_local_out_sk(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
 	int err;

-	err = __ip_local_out(skb);
+	err = __ip_local_out_sk(sk, skb);
 	if (likely(err == 1))
 		err = dst_output_sk(sk, skb);

--
1.9.1





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