[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "netfilter: Fix potential use after free in ip6_route_me_harder()" 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: Fix potential use after free in ip6_route_me_harder()

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.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-3.11.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 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 311c7160a098fbdb1e6f353a38c1220aa14d386f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Popovich <popovich_sergei at mail.ru>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2014 16:22:35 +0300
Subject: netfilter: Fix potential use after free in ip6_route_me_harder()

commit a8951d5814e1373807a94f79f7ccec7041325470 upstream.

Dst is released one line before we access it again with dst->error.

Fixes: 58e35d147128 netfilter: ipv6: propagate routing errors from
ip6_route_me_harder()

Signed-off-by: Sergey Popovich <popovich_sergei at mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/netfilter.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
index 95f3f1da0d7f..d38e6a8d8b9f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter.c
@@ -30,13 +30,15 @@ int ip6_route_me_harder(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		.daddr = iph->daddr,
 		.saddr = iph->saddr,
 	};
+	int err;

 	dst = ip6_route_output(net, skb->sk, &fl6);
-	if (dst->error) {
+	err = dst->error;
+	if (err) {
 		IP6_INC_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(dst), IPSTATS_MIB_OUTNOROUTES);
 		LIMIT_NETDEBUG(KERN_DEBUG "ip6_route_me_harder: No more route.\n");
 		dst_release(dst);
-		return dst->error;
+		return err;
 	}

 	/* Drop old route. */
--
1.9.1