netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: icmp6_send: fix Oops when pinging a not set up IPv6 peer on a sit tunnel

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Date:	Sun, 09 Feb 2014 18:13:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fx.lebail@...oo.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: icmp6_send: fix Oops when pinging a not set up
 IPv6 peer on a sit tunnel

From: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>
Date: Fri,  7 Feb 2014 11:22:37 +0100

> The patch 446fab59333dea91e54688f033dd8d788d0486fb ("ipv6: enable anycast addresses
> as source addresses in ICMPv6 error messages") causes an Oops when pinging a not
> set up IPv6 peer on a sit tunnel.
> 
> The problem is that ipv6_anycast_destination() uses unconditionally skb_dst(skb),
> which is NULL in this case.
> 
> The solution is to use instead the ipv6_chk_acast_addr_src() function.
> 
> Here are the steps to reproduce it:
> modprobe sit
> ip link add sit1 type sit remote 10.16.0.121 local 10.16.0.249
> ip l s sit1 up
> ip -6 a a dev sit1 2001:1234::123 remote 2001:1234::121
> ping6 2001:1234::121
> 
> Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> Tested-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
> Signed-off-by: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@...oo.com>

Applied, thank you.
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