[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "ipv4: fix memory leaks in ip_cmsg_send() callers" has been added to the 3.13.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    ipv4: fix memory leaks in ip_cmsg_send() callers

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt36.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 0ae2c6e280d760972fb1113bb43efb3fd348afe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 06:23:28 -0800
Subject: ipv4: fix memory leaks in ip_cmsg_send() callers

commit 919483096bfe75dda338e98d56da91a263746a0a upstream.

Dmitry reported memory leaks of IP options allocated in
ip_cmsg_send() when/if this function returns an error.

Callers are responsible for the freeing.

Many thanks to Dmitry for the report and diagnostic.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
[ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 ++
 net/ipv4/ping.c        | 4 +++-
 net/ipv4/raw.c         | 4 +++-
 net/ipv4/udp.c         | 4 +++-
 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index 304cd16..73e8497 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -200,6 +200,8 @@ int ip_cmsg_send(struct net *net, struct msghdr *msg, struct ipcm_cookie *ipc)
 		switch (cmsg->cmsg_type) {
 		case IP_RETOPTS:
 			err = cmsg->cmsg_len - CMSG_ALIGN(sizeof(struct cmsghdr));
+
+			/* Our caller is responsible for freeing ipc->opt */
 			err = ip_options_get(net, &ipc->opt, CMSG_DATA(cmsg),
 					     err < 40 ? err : 40);
 			if (err)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ping.c b/net/ipv4/ping.c
index 64735ad..fc15435 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ping.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c
@@ -743,8 +743,10 @@ int ping_v4_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,

 	if (msg->msg_controllen) {
 		err = ip_cmsg_send(sock_net(sk), msg, &ipc);
-		if (err)
+		if (unlikely(err)) {
+			kfree(ipc.opt);
 			return err;
+		}
 		if (ipc.opt)
 			free = 1;
 	}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/raw.c b/net/ipv4/raw.c
index 3022aed..4bd8d30 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/raw.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/raw.c
@@ -525,8 +525,10 @@ static int raw_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,

 	if (msg->msg_controllen) {
 		err = ip_cmsg_send(sock_net(sk), msg, &ipc);
-		if (err)
+		if (unlikely(err)) {
+			kfree(ipc.opt);
 			goto out;
+		}
 		if (ipc.opt)
 			free = 1;
 	}
diff --git a/net/ipv4/udp.c b/net/ipv4/udp.c
index ccb5fbf..3dc61c4 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/udp.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/udp.c
@@ -933,8 +933,10 @@ int udp_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,

 	if (msg->msg_controllen) {
 		err = ip_cmsg_send(sock_net(sk), msg, &ipc);
-		if (err)
+		if (unlikely(err)) {
+			kfree(ipc.opt);
 			return err;
+		}
 		if (ipc.opt)
 			free = 1;
 		connected = 0;
--
2.7.0