[PATCH 50/75] ipv6: ip6_sk_dst_check() must not assume ipv6 dst

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.8.13.6 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit a963a37d384d71ad43b3e9e79d68d42fbe0901f3 ]

It's possible to use AF_INET6 sockets and to connect to an IPv4
destination. After this, socket dst cache is a pointer to a rtable,
not rt6_info.

ip6_sk_dst_check() should check the socket dst cache is IPv6, or else
various corruptions/crashes can happen.

Dave Jones can reproduce immediate crash with
trinity -q -l off -n -c sendmsg -c connect

With help from Hannes Frederic Sowa

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 2adff32..978e4a3 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -843,11 +843,17 @@ static struct dst_entry *ip6_sk_dst_check(struct sock *sk,
 					  const struct flowi6 *fl6)
 {
 	struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk);
-	struct rt6_info *rt = (struct rt6_info *)dst;
+	struct rt6_info *rt;
 
 	if (!dst)
 		goto out;
 
+	if (dst->ops->family != AF_INET6) {
+		dst_release(dst);
+		return NULL;
+	}
+
+	rt = (struct rt6_info *)dst;
 	/* Yes, checking route validity in not connected
 	 * case is not very simple. Take into account,
 	 * that we do not support routing by source, TOS,
-- 
1.8.1.2

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