[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "netlink: Fix dump skb leak/double free" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    netlink: Fix dump skb leak/double free

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

    https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt12.

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 1ce75a6b330c21defbdcf55160210d2ca15f55ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Mon, 16 May 2016 17:28:16 +0800
Subject: netlink: Fix dump skb leak/double free

commit 92964c79b357efd980812c4de5c1fd2ec8bb5520 upstream.

When we free cb->skb after a dump, we do it after releasing the
lock.  This means that a new dump could have started in the time
being and we'll end up freeing their skb instead of ours.

This patch saves the skb and module before we unlock so we free
the right memory.

Fixes: 16b304f3404f ("netlink: Eliminate kmalloc in netlink dump operation.")
Reported-by: Baozeng Ding <sploving1 at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert at gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 08bd219..c216bff 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -2755,6 +2755,7 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)
 	struct netlink_callback *cb;
 	struct sk_buff *skb = NULL;
 	struct nlmsghdr *nlh;
+	struct module *module;
 	int len, err = -ENOBUFS;
 	int alloc_min_size;
 	int alloc_size;
@@ -2835,9 +2836,11 @@ static int netlink_dump(struct sock *sk)
 		cb->done(cb);

 	nlk->cb_running = false;
+	module = cb->module;
+	skb = cb->skb;
 	mutex_unlock(nlk->cb_mutex);
-	module_put(cb->module);
-	consume_skb(cb->skb);
+	module_put(module);
+	consume_skb(skb);
 	return 0;

 errout_skb:
--
2.7.4