This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: fix inet6_csk_update_pmtu() return value
to the 3.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv6-fix-inet6_csk_update_pmtu-return-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From c11042076efb15940639c20af9bf318c02bc6843 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:14:51 -0500
Subject: ipv6: fix inet6_csk_update_pmtu() return value
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit b4dd006760d671337b62532277b0296bcee8dfd4 ]
In case of error, inet6_csk_update_pmtu() should consistently
return NULL.
Bug added in commit 35ad9b9cf7d8a
(ipv6: Add helper inet6_csk_update_pmtu().)
Reported-by: Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/inet6_connection_sock.c
@@ -252,6 +252,7 @@ struct dst_entry *inet6_csk_update_pmtu(
return NULL;
dst->ops->update_pmtu(dst, sk, NULL, mtu);
- return inet6_csk_route_socket(sk, &fl6);
+ dst = inet6_csk_route_socket(sk, &fl6);
+ return IS_ERR(dst) ? NULL : dst;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(inet6_csk_update_pmtu);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.6/rcu-fix-batch-limit-size-problem.patch
queue-3.6/ipv6-fix-inet6_csk_update_pmtu-return-value.patch
queue-3.6/bonding-bonding-driver-does-not-consider-the-gso_max_size-gso_max_segs-setting-of-slave-devices.patch
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