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Commit 706ec919 authored by Xiyu Yang's avatar Xiyu Yang Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv6: Fix nexthop refcnt leak when creating ipv6 route info

ip6_route_info_create() invokes nexthop_get(), which increases the
refcount of the "nh".

When ip6_route_info_create() returns, local variable "nh" becomes
invalid, so the refcount should be decreased to keep refcount balanced.

The reference counting issue happens in one exception handling path of
ip6_route_info_create(). When nexthops can not be used with source
routing, the function forgets to decrease the refcnt increased by
nexthop_get(), causing a refcnt leak.

Fix this issue by pulling up the error source routing handling when
nexthops can not be used with source routing.

Fixes: f88d8ea6

 ("ipv6: Plumb support for nexthop object in a fib6_info")
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Tan <tanxin.ctf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent fa662d78
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