From 01ba16d6ec85a1ec4669c75513a76b61ec53ee50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 10:14:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: reset dst.expires value when clearing expire flag On receiving a packet too big icmp error we update the expire value by calling rt6_update_expires. This function uses dst_set_expires which is implemented that it can only reduce the expiration value of the dst entry. If we insert new routing non-expiry information into the ipv6 fib where we already have a matching rt6_info we only clear the RTF_EXPIRES flag in rt6i_flags and leave the dst.expires value as is. When new mtu information arrives for that cached dst_entry we again call dst_set_expires. This time it won't update the dst.expire value because we left the dst.expire value intact from the last update. So dst_set_expires won't touch dst.expires. Fix this by resetting dst.expires when clearing the RTF_EXPIRE flag. dst_set_expires checks for a zero expiration and updates the dst.expires. In the past this (not updating dst.expires) was necessary because dst.expire was placed in a union with the dst_entry *from reference and rt6_clean_expires did assign NULL to it. This split happend in ecd9883724b78cc72ed92c98bcb1a46c764fff21 ("ipv6: fix race condition regarding dst->expires and dst->from"). Reported-by: Steinar H. Gunderson Reported-by: Valentijn Sessink Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki Acked-by: Eric Dumazet Tested-by: Valentijn Sessink Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/net/ip6_fib.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/include/net/ip6_fib.h b/include/net/ip6_fib.h index 48ec25a7fcb6..5e661a979694 100644 --- a/include/net/ip6_fib.h +++ b/include/net/ip6_fib.h @@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ static inline struct inet6_dev *ip6_dst_idev(struct dst_entry *dst) static inline void rt6_clean_expires(struct rt6_info *rt) { rt->rt6i_flags &= ~RTF_EXPIRES; + rt->dst.expires = 0; } static inline void rt6_set_expires(struct rt6_info *rt, unsigned long expires) -- 2.30.2