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[3.5.y.z,extended,stable] Patch "ipv6: fix bad free of addrconf_init_net" has been added to staging queue

Message ID 1365081937-14717-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques April 4, 2013, 1:25 p.m. UTC 
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipv6: fix bad free of addrconf_init_net

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From 7c3477083c92be37ef4f27c14329d3d1ac07e2cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 01:52:45 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: fix bad free of addrconf_init_net

commit a79ca223e029aa4f09abb337accf1812c900a800 upstream.

Signed-off-by: Hong Zhiguo <honkiko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 26 ++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

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diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index fc9ac78..00188b3 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -4658,26 +4658,20 @@  static void addrconf_sysctl_unregister(struct inet6_dev *idev)

 static int __net_init addrconf_init_net(struct net *net)
 {
-	int err;
+	int err = -ENOMEM;
 	struct ipv6_devconf *all, *dflt;

-	err = -ENOMEM;
-	all = &ipv6_devconf;
-	dflt = &ipv6_devconf_dflt;
+	all = kmemdup(&ipv6_devconf, sizeof(ipv6_devconf), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (all == NULL)
+		goto err_alloc_all;

-	if (!net_eq(net, &init_net)) {
-		all = kmemdup(all, sizeof(ipv6_devconf), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (all == NULL)
-			goto err_alloc_all;
+	dflt = kmemdup(&ipv6_devconf_dflt, sizeof(ipv6_devconf_dflt), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (dflt == NULL)
+		goto err_alloc_dflt;

-		dflt = kmemdup(dflt, sizeof(ipv6_devconf_dflt), GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (dflt == NULL)
-			goto err_alloc_dflt;
-	} else {
-		/* these will be inherited by all namespaces */
-		dflt->autoconf = ipv6_defaults.autoconf;
-		dflt->disable_ipv6 = ipv6_defaults.disable_ipv6;
-	}
+	/* these will be inherited by all namespaces */
+	dflt->autoconf = ipv6_defaults.autoconf;
+	dflt->disable_ipv6 = ipv6_defaults.disable_ipv6;

 	net->ipv6.devconf_all = all;
 	net->ipv6.devconf_dflt = dflt;