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Commit 50a75a89 authored by Christoph Paasch's avatar Christoph Paasch Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv6/tcp: Stop processing ICMPv6 redirect messages



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 093d04d4 (ipv6: Change skb->data before using
icmpv6_notify() to propagate redirect), but the origin of the bug comes
from ec18d9a2 (ipv6: Add redirect support to all protocol icmp error
handlers.). The bug simply did not trigger prior to 093d04d4, 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: default avatarTetja Rediske <tetja@tetja.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 53f63189
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