This is a clone of commit 2ab957492d13b ("ip_forward: Drop frames with
attached skb->sk") for ipv6.
This commit has exactly the same reasons as the above mentioned commit,
namely to prevent panics during netfilter reload or a misconfigured stack.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa
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net/ipv6
Should 9ef2e965e554 ["ipv6: drop frames with attached skb->sk in forwarding"]
be considered for stable?
It did address a crash in ip6_skb_dst_mtu that I was seeing in 3.18, where
an incoming packet found an inet_timewait_sock in tcp_v6_early_demux
but was later ip6_forward'ed (the local address th
On Mon, 2016-03-14 at 15:32 -0700, Francesco Ruggeri wrote:
> Should 9ef2e965e554 ["ipv6: drop frames with attached skb->sk in forwarding"]
> be considered for stable?
> It did address a crash in ip6_skb_dst_mtu that I was seeing in 3.18, where
> an incoming packet found an inet_timewait_sock in tc
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 18:19:53 +0200
> This is a clone of commit 2ab957492d13b ("ip_forward: Drop frames with
> attached skb->sk") for ipv6.
>
> This commit has exactly the same reasons as the above mentioned commit,
> namely to prevent panics during netfilter reload
