Patch "sctp: sctp should release assoc when sctp_make_abort_user return NULL in sctp_close" has been added to the 4.3-stable tree

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

    sctp: sctp should release assoc when sctp_make_abort_user return NULL in sctp_close

to the 4.3-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-sctp-should-release-assoc-when-sctp_make_abort_user-return-null-in-sctp_close.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let [off-list ref] know about it.

From foo@baz Tue Jan 26 21:35:03 PST 2016

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:49:25 +0800
Subject: sctp: sctp should release assoc when sctp_make_abort_user return NULL in sctp_close

From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>

[ Upstream commit 068d8bd338e855286aea54e70d1c101569284b21 ]

In sctp_close, sctp_make_abort_user may return NULL because of memory
allocation failure. If this happens, it will bypass any state change
and never free the assoc. The assoc has no chance to be freed and it
will be kept in memory with the state it had even after the socket is
closed by sctp_close().

So if sctp_make_abort_user fails to allocate memory, we should abort
the asoc via sctp_primitive_ABORT as well. Just like the annotation in
sctp_sf_cookie_wait_prm_abort and sctp_sf_do_9_1_prm_abort said,
"Even if we can't send the ABORT due to low memory delete the TCB.
This is a departure from our typical NOMEM handling".

But then the chunk is NULL (low memory) and the SCTP_CMD_REPLY cmd would
dereference the chunk pointer, and system crash. So we should add
SCTP_CMD_REPLY cmd only when the chunk is not NULL, just like other
places where it adds SCTP_CMD_REPLY cmd.

Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c |    6 ++++--
 net/sctp/socket.c       |    3 +--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c

@@ -4829,7 +4829,8 @@ sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_do_9_1_prm_ab
 
 	retval = SCTP_DISPOSITION_CONSUME;
 
-	sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_REPLY, SCTP_CHUNK(abort));
+	if (abort)
+		sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_REPLY, SCTP_CHUNK(abort));
 
 	/* Even if we can't send the ABORT due to low memory delete the
 	 * TCB.  This is a departure from our typical NOMEM handling.

@@ -4966,7 +4967,8 @@ sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_cookie_wait_p
 			SCTP_TO(SCTP_EVENT_TIMEOUT_T1_INIT));
 	retval = SCTP_DISPOSITION_CONSUME;
 
-	sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_REPLY, SCTP_CHUNK(abort));
+	if (abort)
+		sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_REPLY, SCTP_CHUNK(abort));
 
 	sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_NEW_STATE,
 			SCTP_STATE(SCTP_STATE_CLOSED));
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c

@@ -1513,8 +1513,7 @@ static void sctp_close(struct sock *sk,
 			struct sctp_chunk *chunk;
 
 			chunk = sctp_make_abort_user(asoc, NULL, 0);
-			if (chunk)
-				sctp_primitive_ABORT(net, asoc, chunk);
+			sctp_primitive_ABORT(net, asoc, chunk);
 		} else
 			sctp_primitive_SHUTDOWN(net, asoc, NULL);
 	}

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

queue-4.3/sctp-sctp-should-release-assoc-when-sctp_make_abort_user-return-null-in-sctp_close.patch