Patch "ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt()" 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

ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt()

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:
ipv6-xfrm-handle-errors-reported-by-xfrm6_find_1stfragopt.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: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 13:15:41 +0100
Subject: ipv6: xfrm: Handle errors reported by xfrm6_find_1stfragopt()

From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 6e80ac5cc992ab6256c3dae87f7e57db15e1a58c ]

xfrm6_find_1stfragopt() may now return an error code and we must not treat it as a length.

---
 net/ipv6/xfrm6_mode_ro.c        |    2 ++
 net/ipv6/xfrm6_mode_transport.c |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ static int xfrm6_ro_output(struct xfrm_s
 	iph = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 
 	hdr_len = x->type->hdr_offset(x, skb, &prevhdr);
+	if (hdr_len < 0)
+		return hdr_len;
 	skb_set_mac_header(skb, (prevhdr - x->props.header_len) - skb->data);
 	skb_set_network_header(skb, -x->props.header_len);
 	skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + hdr_len;

@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ static int xfrm6_transport_output(struct
 	iph = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 
 	hdr_len = x->type->hdr_offset(x, skb, &prevhdr);
+	if (hdr_len < 0)
+		return hdr_len;
 	skb_set_mac_header(skb, (prevhdr - x->props.header_len) - skb->data);
 	skb_set_network_header(skb, -x->props.header_len);
 	skb->transport_header = skb->network_header + hdr_len;

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

queue-4.9/ipv6-xfrm-handle-errors-reported-by-xfrm6_find_1stfragopt.patch queue-4.9/ipv6-fix-leak-in-ipv6_gso_segment.patch