Bug #279

Fwd: [PATCH] ipv6: nullify ipv6_ac_list and ipv6_fl_list when creating new socket

Added by David Taht on Sep 25, 2011. Updated on Apr 21, 2012.
Closed Normal Dave Täht

Description

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Yan, Zheng zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Date: Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:21 AM
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: nullify ipv6_ac_list and ipv6_fl_list when
creating new socket
To: “netdev@vger.kernel.org” netdev@vger.kernel.org,
“davem@davemloft.net” davem@davemloft.net

ipv6_ac_list and ipv6_fl_list from listening socket are inadvertently
shared with new socket created for connection.

Signed-off-by: Zheng Yan zheng.z.yan@intel.com

diff –git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 3c9fa61..79cc646 100644
— a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
**+ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@ -1383,6 +1383,8@ static struct sock * tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(struct
sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
               newtp->af_specific = &tcp_sock_ipv6_mapped_specific;
 #endif

  •               newnp->ipv6_ac_list = NULL;
  •               newnp->ipv6_fl_list = NULL;
                   newnp->pktoptions  = NULL;
                   newnp->opt         = NULL;
                   newnp->mcast_oif   = inet6_iif(skb);
    @ -1447,6 +1449,7@ static struct sock * tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock(struct
    sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
              First: no IPv4 options.
            */
           newinet->inet_opt = NULL;
  •       newnp->ipv6_ac_list = NULL;
           newnp->ipv6_fl_list = NULL;

       /* Clone RX bits */

History

Updated by Dave Täht on Nov 18, 2011.
I think this is fixed in 3.1
Updated by Dave Täht on Nov 18, 2011.
Confirmed fixed in 3.1. How do I account for all the hours I read commits and the mailing lists?

commit 8a04b45367c7943f8f7f30257d42e2106ab7a0bf
Merge: a8062e4 805e969
Author: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Date: Tue Oct 4 10:37:06 2011 -0700

Merge git://github.com/davem330/net

* git://github.com/davem330/net:
pch_gbe: Fixed the issue on which a network freezes
pch_gbe: Fixed the issue on which PC was frozen when link was downed.
make PACKET_STATISTICS getsockopt report consistently between ring and non-ring
net: xen-netback: correctly restart Tx after a VM restore/migrate
bonding: properly stop queuing work when requested
can bcm: fix incomplete tx_setup fix
RDSRDMA: Fix cleanup of rds_iw_mr_pool
net: Documentation: Fix type of variables
ibmveth: Fix oops on request_irq failure
ipv6: nullify ipv6_ac_list and ipv6_fl_list when creating new socket
cxgb4: Fix EEH on IBM P7IOC

Updated by Dave Täht on Nov 18, 2011.
Updated by Dave Täht on Apr 21, 2012.

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