Commit 06e9d040 authored Aug 20, 2015 by Jiri Benc Committed by David S. Miller Aug 20, 2015

ipv6: drop metadata dst in ip6_route_input



The fix in commit 48fb6b55 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: 48fb6b55 ("ipv6: fix crash over flow-based vxlan device")
Fixes: ee122c79 ("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>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 61adedf3

net/ipv6/route.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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));
		}

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