Bug #367

Fwd: [PATCH] ipv6: fix rt6_update_expires

Added by David Taht on Apr 17, 2012. Updated on Apr 19, 2012.
Rejected Normal Dave Täht

Description

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Gao feng gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com
Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: fix rt6_update_expires
To: Jiri Bohac jbohac@suse.cz
Cc: David Miller davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org

于 2012年04月16日 21:34, Jiri Bohac 写道:
>
> Commit 1716a961 (ipv6: fix problem with expired dst cache) broke PMTU
> discovery. rt6_update_expires() calls dst_set_expires(), which only updates
> dst->expires if it has not been set previously (expires 0) or if the new > expires is earlier than the current dst->expires. > > rt6_update_expires() needs to zero rt->dst.expires, otherwise it will contain > ivalid data left over from rt->dst.from and will confuse dst_set_expires(). > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Bohac <jbohac@suse.cz> > > diff –git a/include/net/ip6_fib.h b/include/net/ip6_fib.h > index ad4126f..68c1f94 100644 > — a/include/net/ip6_fib.h > +++ b/include/net/ip6_fib.h > @@ -143,8 +143,13 @@ static inline void rt6_set_expires(struct rt6_info *rt, unsigned long expires) > >  static inline void rt6_update_expires(struct rt6_info *rt, int timeout) >  { > -     if (!(rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_EXPIRES) && rt->dst.from) > -             dst_release(rt->dst.from); > +     if (!(rt->rt6i_flags & RTF_EXPIRES)) { > +             if (rt->dst.from) > +                     dst_release(rt->dst.from); > +             /* dst_set_expires relies on expires 0
> +                  if it has not been set previously */
> +             rt->dst.expires = 0;
> +     }
>
>       dst_set_expires(&rt->dst, timeout);
>       rt->rt6i_flags |= RTF_EXPIRES;
>

looks good to me, thanks.

History

Updated by Dave Täht on Apr 19, 2012.
this is a 3.4 issue, now fixed. No need to backport.

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