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[v2,net-next,07/13] ipv6: drop metadata dst in ip6_route_input

Message ID da9ffa03a9260042f5f325b1e7d56ded32d846b5.1439978875.git.jbenc@redhat.com
State Superseded, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Jiri Benc Aug. 19, 2015, 10:09 a.m. UTC
The fix in commit 48fb6b554501 is incomplete, as now ip6_route_input can be
called with non-NULL dst if it's a metadata dst and the reference is leaked.
Drop the reference.

Fixes: 48fb6b554501 ("ipv6: fix crash over flow-based vxlan device")
Fixes: ee122c79d422 ("vxlan: Flow based tunneling")
CC: Wei-Chun Chao <weichunc@plumgrid.com>
CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
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 net/ipv6/route.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Comments

Thomas Graf Aug. 19, 2015, 4:41 p.m. UTC | #1
On 08/19/15 at 12:09pm, Jiri Benc wrote:
> The fix in commit 48fb6b554501 is incomplete, as now ip6_route_input can be
> called with non-NULL dst if it's a metadata dst and the reference is leaked.
> Drop the reference.
> 
> Fixes: 48fb6b554501 ("ipv6: fix crash over flow-based vxlan device")
> Fixes: ee122c79d422 ("vxlan: Flow based tunneling")
> CC: Wei-Chun Chao <weichunc@plumgrid.com>
> CC: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
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diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index e6bbcdee7707..0947ad0b3de8 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1140,6 +1140,7 @@  void ip6_route_input(struct sk_buff *skb)
 		.flowi6_proto = iph->nexthdr,
 	};
 
+	skb_dst_drop(skb);
 	skb_dst_set(skb, ip6_route_input_lookup(net, skb->dev, &fl6, flags));
 }