From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2017 17:22:46 +0100

> In the current DCCP implementation an skb for a DCCP_PKT_REQUEST packet
> is forcibly freed via __kfree_skb in dccp_rcv_state_process if
> dccp_v6_conn_request successfully returns.
> 
> However, if IPV6_RECVPKTINFO is set on a socket, the address of the skb
> is saved to ireq->pktopts and the ref count for skb is incremented in
> dccp_v6_conn_request, so skb is still in use. Nevertheless, it gets freed
> in dccp_rcv_state_process.
> 
> Fix by calling consume_skb instead of doing goto discard and therefore
> calling __kfree_skb.
> 
> Similar fixes for TCP:
> 
> fb7e2399ec17f1004c0e0ccfd17439f8759ede01 [TCP]: skb is unexpectedly freed.
> 0aea76d35c9651d55bbaf746e7914e5f9ae5a25d tcp: SYN packets are now
> simply consumed
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

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