Re: PROBLEM: IPv6 TCP-Connections resetting

[Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>]

On Saturday 06 April 2013 11:14:44 Christoph Paasch wrote:
> From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>

Argh...
Sorry, my e-mail client messed up the patch. Here the resend:


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From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2013 10:21:01 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6/tcp: Stop processing ICMPv6 redirect messages

Upon reception of an ICMPv6 Redirect message, we should not continue
inside tcp_v6_err. Otherwise, an error will be reported or request-socks
will be closed.

Adds also some parantheses to respect codingstyle guidelines.

Reported-by: Tetja Rediske <tetja@tetja.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
---
 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 1033d2b..24434c5 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -386,6 +386,7 @@ static void tcp_v6_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt,
 
 		if (dst)
 			dst->ops->redirect(dst, sk, skb);
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (type == ICMPV6_PKT_TOOBIG) {
@@ -441,16 +442,18 @@ static void tcp_v6_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt,
 			sk->sk_error_report(sk);		/* Wake people up to see the error (see connect in sock.c) */
 
 			tcp_done(sk);
-		} else
+		} else {
 			sk->sk_err_soft = err;
+		}
 		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk) && np->recverr) {
 		sk->sk_err = err;
 		sk->sk_error_report(sk);
-	} else
+	} else {
 		sk->sk_err_soft = err;
+	}
 
 out:
 	bh_unlock_sock(sk);
-- 
1.8.1.227.g44fe835



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