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

netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix secctx memory leak

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: netfilter-nfnetlink_queue-fix-secctx-memory-leak.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 stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Thu Dec 21 09:02:40 CET 2017

From: Liping Zhang zlpnobody@gmail.com Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:59:25 +0800 Subject: netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: fix secctx memory leak

From: Liping Zhang zlpnobody@gmail.com

[ Upstream commit 77c1c03c5b8ef28e55bb0aff29b1e006037ca645 ]

We must call security_release_secctx to free the memory returned by security_secid_to_secctx, otherwise memory may be leaked forever.

Fixes: ef493bd930ae ("netfilter: nfnetlink_queue: add security context information") Signed-off-by: Liping Zhang zlpnobody@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso pablo@netfilter.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ nfqnl_build_packet_message(struct net *n skb = alloc_skb(size, GFP_ATOMIC); if (!skb) { skb_tx_error(entskb); - return NULL; + goto nlmsg_failure; }

nlh = nlmsg_put(skb, 0, 0, @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ nfqnl_build_packet_message(struct net *n if (!nlh) { skb_tx_error(entskb); kfree_skb(skb); - return NULL; + goto nlmsg_failure; } nfmsg = nlmsg_data(nlh); nfmsg->nfgen_family = entry->state.pf; @@ -598,12 +598,17 @@ nfqnl_build_packet_message(struct net *n }

nlh->nlmsg_len = skb->len; + if (seclen) + security_release_secctx(secdata, seclen); return skb;

nla_put_failure: skb_tx_error(entskb); kfree_skb(skb); net_err_ratelimited("nf_queue: error creating packet message\n"); +nlmsg_failure: + if (seclen) + security_release_secctx(secdata, seclen); return NULL; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zlpnobody@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/netfilter-nfnetlink_queue-fix-secctx-memory-leak.patch queue-4.9/netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-runtime-expectation-policy-updates.patch queue-4.9/netfilter-nfnl_cthelper-fix-a-race-when-walk-the-nf_ct_helper_hash-table.patch