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Commit 0761680d authored by Jesper Dangaard Brouer's avatar Jesper Dangaard Brouer Committed by David S. Miller
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net: ipv4: fix listify ip_rcv_finish in case of forwarding



In commit 5fa12739 ("net: ipv4: listify ip_rcv_finish") calling
dst_input(skb) was split-out.  The ip_sublist_rcv_finish() just calls
dst_input(skb) in a loop.

The problem is that ip_sublist_rcv_finish() forgot to remove the SKB
from the list before invoking dst_input().  Further more we need to
clear skb->next as other parts of the network stack use another kind
of SKB lists for xmit_more (see dev_hard_start_xmit).

A crash occurs if e.g. dst_input() invoke ip_forward(), which calls
dst_output()/ip_output() that eventually calls __dev_queue_xmit() +
sch_direct_xmit(), and a crash occurs in validate_xmit_skb_list().

This patch only fixes the crash, but there is a huge potential for
a performance boost if we can pass an SKB-list through to ip_forward.

Fixes: 5fa12739 ("net: ipv4: listify ip_rcv_finish")
Signed-off-by: default avatarJesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarEdward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 51bef926
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