Patch "sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst()" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst()

to the 4.4-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:
sctp-fix-dst-refcnt-leak-in-sctp_v6_get_dst.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

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

From: Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 15:10:35 +0300
Subject: sctp: fix dst refcnt leak in sctp_v6_get_dst()

From: Alexey Kodanev <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 957d761cf91cdbb175ad7d8f5472336a4d54dbf2 ]

When going through the bind address list in sctp_v6_get_dst() and the previously found address is better ('matchlen > bmatchlen'), the code continues to the next iteration without releasing currently held destination.

Fix it by releasing 'bdst' before continue to the next iteration, and instead of introducing one more '!IS_ERR(bdst)' check for dst_release(), move the already existed one right after ip6_dst_lookup_flow(), i.e. we shouldn't proceed further if we get an error for the route lookup.

---
 net/sctp/ipv6.c |   10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -323,8 +323,10 @@ static void sctp_v6_get_dst(struct sctp_
 		final_p = fl6_update_dst(fl6, rcu_dereference(np->opt), &final);
 		bdst = ip6_dst_lookup_flow(sk, fl6, final_p);
 
-		if (!IS_ERR(bdst) &&
-		    ipv6_chk_addr(dev_net(bdst->dev),
+		if (IS_ERR(bdst))
+			continue;
+
+		if (ipv6_chk_addr(dev_net(bdst->dev),
 				  &laddr->a.v6.sin6_addr, bdst->dev, 1)) {
 			if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dst))
 				dst_release(dst);

@@ -333,8 +335,10 @@ static void sctp_v6_get_dst(struct sctp_
 		}
 
 		bmatchlen = sctp_v6_addr_match_len(daddr, &laddr->a);
-		if (matchlen > bmatchlen)
+		if (matchlen > bmatchlen) {
+			dst_release(bdst);
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dst))
 			dst_release(dst);

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

queue-4.4/sctp-fix-dst-refcnt-leak-in-sctp_v6_get_dst.patch queue-4.4/udplite-fix-partial-checksum-initialization.patch queue-4.4/sctp-verify-size-of-a-new-chunk-in-_sctp_make_chunk.patch