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ipv6/tcp: Stop processing ICMPv6 redirect messages
authorChristoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Sun, 7 Apr 2013 04:53:15 +0000 (04:53 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 1 May 2013 16:46:18 +0000 (09:46 -0700)
commitc642a760c494c82e7e415e14c5de4be3bf260056
treeba07ed952731951292682cb95348487a02a69024
parent1f451b69be3f3705018b314be47c832e5a53a1f6
ipv6/tcp: Stop processing ICMPv6 redirect messages

[ Upstream commit 50a75a8914539c5dcd441c5f54d237a666a426fd ]

Tetja Rediske found that if the host receives an ICMPv6 redirect message
after sending a SYN+ACK, the connection will be reset.

He bisected it down to 093d04d (ipv6: Change skb->data before using
icmpv6_notify() to propagate redirect), but the origin of the bug comes
from ec18d9a26 (ipv6: Add redirect support to all protocol icmp error
handlers.). The bug simply did not trigger prior to 093d04d, because
skb->data did not point to the inner IP header and thus icmpv6_notify
did not call the correct err_handler.

This patch adds the missing "goto out;" in tcp_v6_err. After receiving
an ICMPv6 Redirect, we should not continue processing the ICMP in
tcp_v6_err, as this may trigger the removal of request-socks or setting
sk_err(_soft).

Reported-by: Tetja Rediske <tetja@tetja.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c