From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 11:15:07 +0000 (-0700) Subject: ipv6: ip6_sk_dst_check() must not assume ipv6 dst X-Git-Tag: v3.2.50~79 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a7cdf6bc2abd64f94622fe12a1a212a07a316a83;p=pandora-kernel.git ipv6: ip6_sk_dst_check() must not assume ipv6 dst [ Upstream commit a963a37d384d71ad43b3e9e79d68d42fbe0901f3 ] It's possible to use AF_INET6 sockets and to connect to an IPv4 destination. After this, socket dst cache is a pointer to a rtable, not rt6_info. ip6_sk_dst_check() should check the socket dst cache is IPv6, or else various corruptions/crashes can happen. Dave Jones can reproduce immediate crash with trinity -q -l off -n -c sendmsg -c connect With help from Hannes Frederic Sowa Reported-by: Dave Jones Reported-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-diff-tree failed