Patch "tap: double-free in error path in tap_open()" 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

tap: double-free in error path in tap_open()

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:
tap-double-free-in-error-path-in-tap_open.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: Girish Moodalbail <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 00:23:04 -0700
Subject: tap: double-free in error path in tap_open()

From: Girish Moodalbail <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 78e0ea6791d7baafb8a0ca82b1bd0c7b3453c919 ]

Double free of skb_array in tap module is causing kernel panic. When tap_set_queue() fails we free skb_array right away by calling skb_array_cleanup(). However, later on skb_array_cleanup() is called again by tap_sock_destruct through sock_put(). This patch fixes that issue.

---
 drivers/net/macvtap.c |   18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

@@ -559,6 +559,10 @@ static int macvtap_open(struct inode *in
 					     &macvtap_proto, 0);
 	if (!q)
 		goto err;
+	if (skb_array_init(&q->skb_array, dev->tx_queue_len, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+		sk_free(&q->sk);
+		goto err;
+	}
 
 	RCU_INIT_POINTER(q->sock.wq, &q->wq);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&q->wq.wait);

@@ -582,22 +586,18 @@ static int macvtap_open(struct inode *in
 	if ((dev->features & NETIF_F_HIGHDMA) && (dev->features & NETIF_F_SG))
 		sock_set_flag(&q->sk, SOCK_ZEROCOPY);
 
-	err = -ENOMEM;
-	if (skb_array_init(&q->skb_array, dev->tx_queue_len, GFP_KERNEL))
-		goto err_array;
-
 	err = macvtap_set_queue(dev, file, q);
-	if (err)
-		goto err_queue;
+	if (err) {
+		/* macvtap_sock_destruct() will take care of freeing skb_array */
+		goto err_put;
+	}
 
 	dev_put(dev);
 
 	rtnl_unlock();
 	return err;
 
-err_queue:
-	skb_array_cleanup(&q->skb_array);
-err_array:
+err_put:
 	sock_put(&q->sk);
 err:
 	if (dev)

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

queue-4.9/tap-double-free-in-error-path-in-tap_open.patch