ipv6: fix a dst leak when removing its exception
authorXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:48:28 +0000 (00:48 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 07:17:02 +0000 (08:17 +0100)
commitb536dd802a36dd14e8d5e68201cecab46ccb9669
treea97e3bfeb73e32315f2e44b7e90987611d4446f8
parent60258098e8e04fe5911090244e06558f4a4d24a7
ipv6: fix a dst leak when removing its exception

[ Upstream commit 761f60261b4401aa368d71d431b4c218af0efcee ]

These is no need to hold dst before calling rt6_remove_exception_rt().
The call to dst_hold_safe() in ip6_link_failure() was for ip6_del_rt(),
which has been removed in Commit 93531c674315 ("net/ipv6: separate
handling of FIB entries from dst based routes"). Otherwise, it will
cause a dst leak.

This patch is to simply remove the dst_hold_safe() call before calling
rt6_remove_exception_rt() and also do the same in ip6_del_cached_rt().
It's safe, because the removal of the exception that holds its dst's
refcnt is protected by rt6_exception_lock.

Fixes: 93531c674315 ("net/ipv6: separate handling of FIB entries from dst based routes")
Fixes: 23fb93a4d3f1 ("net/ipv6: Cleanup exception and cache route handling")
Reported-by: Li Shuang <shuali@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/route.c