Patch "inet: fix IP(V6)_RECVORIGDSTADDR for udp sockets" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

inet: fix IP(V6)_RECVORIGDSTADDR for udp sockets

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
inet-fix-ip-v6-_recvorigdstaddr-for-udp-sockets.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:19:16 -0500
Subject: inet: fix IP(V6)_RECVORIGDSTADDR for udp sockets

From: Willem de Bruijn <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 39b2dd765e0711e1efd1d1df089473a8dd93ad48 ]

Socket cmsg IP(V6)_RECVORIGDSTADDR checks that port range lies within the packet. For sockets that have transport headers pulled, transport offset can be negative. Use signed comparison to avoid overflow.

---
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c |    2 +-
 net/ipv6/datagram.c    |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static void ip_cmsg_recv_dstaddr(struct
 	const struct iphdr *iph = ip_hdr(skb);
 	__be16 *ports = (__be16 *)skb_transport_header(skb);
 
-	if (skb_transport_offset(skb) + 4 > skb->len)
+	if (skb_transport_offset(skb) + 4 > (int)skb->len)
 		return;
 
 	/* All current transport protocols have the port numbers in the

@@ -700,7 +700,7 @@ void ip6_datagram_recv_specific_ctl(stru
 		struct sockaddr_in6 sin6;
 		__be16 *ports = (__be16 *) skb_transport_header(skb);
 
-		if (skb_transport_offset(skb) + 4 <= skb->len) {
+		if (skb_transport_offset(skb) + 4 <= (int)skb->len) {
 			/* All current transport protocols have the port numbers in the
 			 * first four bytes of the transport header and this function is
 			 * written with this assumption in mind.

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/inet-fix-ip-v6-_recvorigdstaddr-for-udp-sockets.patch