Patch "netfilter: ipv6: fix use-after-free Write in nf_nat_ipv6_manip_pkt" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

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

netfilter: ipv6: fix use-after-free Write in nf_nat_ipv6_manip_pkt

to the 3.18-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:
netfilter-ipv6-fix-use-after-free-write-in-nf_nat_ipv6_manip_pkt.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

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

From: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:10:17 +0100
Subject: netfilter: ipv6: fix use-after-free Write in nf_nat_ipv6_manip_pkt

From: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>

commit b078556aecd791b0e5cb3a59f4c3a14273b52121 upstream.

l4proto->manip_pkt() can cause reallocation of skb head so pointer to the ipv6 header must be reloaded.

---
 net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_nat_l3proto_ipv6.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ static bool nf_nat_ipv6_manip_pkt(struct
 	    !l4proto->manip_pkt(skb, &nf_nat_l3proto_ipv6, iphdroff, hdroff,
 				target, maniptype))
 		return false;
+
+	/* must reload, offset might have changed */
+	ipv6h = (void *)skb->data + iphdroff;
+
 manip_addr:
 	if (maniptype == NF_NAT_MANIP_SRC)
 		ipv6h->saddr = target->src.u3.in6;

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

queue-3.18/netfilter-ipv6-fix-use-after-free-write-in-nf_nat_ipv6_manip_pkt.patch queue-3.18/netfilter-ebtables-config_compat-don-t-trust-userland-offsets.patch queue-3.18/netfilter-bridge-ebt_among-add-missing-match-size-checks.patch