ipv4: restore rt->fi for reference counting
IPv4 dst could use fi->fib_metrics to store metrics but fib_info itself is refcnt'ed, so without taking a refcnt fi and fi->fib_metrics could be freed while dst metrics still points to it. This triggers use-after-free as reported by Andrey twice. This patch reverts commit 2860583f ("ipv4: Kill rt->fi") to restore this reference counting. It is a quick fix for -net and -stable, for -net-next, as Eric suggested, we can consider doing reference counting for metrics itself instead of relying on fib_info. IPv6 is very different, it copies or steals the metrics from mx6_config in fib6_commit_metrics() so probably doesn't need a refcnt. Decnet has already done the refcnt'ing, see dn_fib_semantic_match(). Fixes: 2860583f ("ipv4: Kill rt->fi") Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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