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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-12-13 16:48:21 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-12-13 16:51:51 -0500
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ipv6: If neigh lookup fails during icmp6 dst allocation, propagate error.
Don't just succeed with a route that has a NULL neighbour attached. This follows the behavior of addrconf_dst_alloc(). Allowing this kind of route to end up with a NULL neigh attached will result in packet drops on output until the route is somehow invalidated, since nothing will meanwhile try to lookup the neigh again. A statistic is bumped for the case where we see a neigh-less route on output, but the resulting packet drop is otherwise silent in nature, and frankly it's a hard error for this to happen and ipv6 should do what ipv4 does which is say something in the kernel logs. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/route.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index d98cf41edf2a..4bf362baa97a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1089,8 +1089,10 @@ struct dst_entry *icmp6_dst_alloc(struct net_device *dev,
neigh_hold(neigh);
else {
neigh = __neigh_lookup_errno(&nd_tbl, &fl6->daddr, dev);
- if (IS_ERR(neigh))
- neigh = NULL;
+ if (IS_ERR(neigh)) {
+ dst_free(&rt->dst);
+ return ERR_CAST(neigh);
+ }
}
rt->dst.flags |= DST_HOST;