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ipv6/tcp: Stop processing ICMPv6 redirect messages

Tetja Rediske found that if the host receives an ICMPv6 redirect message
after sending a SYN+ACK, the connection will be reset.

He bisected it down to 093d04d (ipv6: Change skb->data before using
icmpv6_notify() to propagate redirect), but the origin of the bug comes
from ec18d9a26 (ipv6: Add redirect support to all protocol icmp error
handlers.). The bug simply did not trigger prior to 093d04d, because
skb->data did not point to the inner IP header and thus icmpv6_notify
did not call the correct err_handler.

This patch adds the missing "goto out;" in tcp_v6_err. After receiving
an ICMPv6 Redirect, we should not continue processing the ICMP in
tcp_v6_err, as this may trigger the removal of request-socks or setting
sk_err(_soft).

Reported-by: Tetja Rediske <tetja@tetja.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Christoph Paasch 12 years ago
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      net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c

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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) {