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Commit 2ab95749 authored by Sebastian Pöhn's avatar Sebastian Pöhn Committed by David S. Miller
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ip_forward: Drop frames with attached skb->sk



Initial discussion was:
[FYI] xfrm: Don't lookup sk_policy for timewait sockets

Forwarded frames should not have a socket attached. Especially
tw sockets will lead to panics later-on in the stack.

This was observed with TPROXY assigning a tw socket and broken
policy routing (misconfigured). As a result frame enters
forwarding path instead of input. We cannot solve this in
TPROXY as it cannot know that policy routing is broken.

v2:
Remove useless comment

Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Poehn <sebastian.poehn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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