Patch "netlink: avoid a double skb free in genlmsg_mcast()" 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

    netlink: avoid a double skb free in genlmsg_mcast()

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:
     netlink-avoid-a-double-skb-free-in-genlmsg_mcast.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 [off-list ref] know about it.

From foo@baz Wed Mar 28 20:16:33 CEST 2018

From: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:10:23 +0100
Subject: netlink: avoid a double skb free in genlmsg_mcast()

From: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted>


[ Upstream commit 02a2385f37a7c6594c9d89b64c4a1451276f08eb ]

nlmsg_multicast() consumes always the skb, thus the original skb must be
freed only when this function is called with a clone.

Fixes: cb9f7a9a5c96 ("netlink: ensure to loop over all netns in genlmsg_multicast_allns()")
Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/netlink/genetlink.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c

@@ -1128,7 +1128,7 @@ static int genlmsg_mcast(struct sk_buff
 	if (!err)
 		delivered = true;
 	else if (err != -ESRCH)
-		goto error;
+		return err;
 	return delivered ? 0 : -ESRCH;
  error:
 	kfree_skb(skb);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com are

queue-4.9/netlink-avoid-a-double-skb-free-in-genlmsg_mcast.patch