linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 159/190] ipsec: check return value of skb_to

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Date:   Thu, 17 May 2018 22:08:00 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
        Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 159/190] ipsec: check return value of skb_to_sgvec
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On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 11:10 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 02:58:02PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2018-04-11 at 20:36 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@...c4.com>
> > > 
> > > commit 3f29770723fe498a5c5f57c3a31a996ebdde03e1 upstream.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > This leaves the error paths in esp{4,6}.c leaking memory; fixed
> > upstream by:
> > 
> > commit e6194923237f3952b955c343b65b211f36bce01c
> > Author: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
> > Date:   Thu Jul 13 09:13:30 2017 +0200
> > 
> >     esp: Fix memleaks on error paths.
> 
> Really?  That patch doesn't apply at all.  It looks like this patch
> fixes things that happened after the above patch.
> 
> Or am I confused?

It's partly fixing bugs introduced in 4.12, but it's also fixing
similar bugs introduced by the commit that has been backported to
stable branches.

I've attached a backport to 4.4 that will also work for 4.9 (it has
identical versions of esp4 and esp6).  I would appreciate a review from
those actually familiar with the code.  Also, it looks like
esp6_input() still has a potential leak both upstream and in stable
branches.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.

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