netdev - Re: ipv6: oops in datagram.c line 260

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Date:	Wed, 07 Jan 2015 11:45:02 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...hat.com>
To:	Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
Cc:	Chris Ruehl <chris.ruehl@...ys.com.hk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: ipv6: oops in datagram.c line 260

On Mi, 2015-01-07 at 08:22 +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:01:13PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > 
> > xfrm6_output_finish unconditionally resets skb->protocol so we try to
> > dispatch to the IPv6 handler, even though tcp just sends an IPv4 packet.
> 
> Maybe we better dispatch based on sk->sk_family, this should give
> always the right address family of the socket.

The original problem was dealing with IPv4/v6 mapped traffic. Processing
local errors from unconnected UDP sockets which are emitting both IPv4
and IPv6 frames won't play nicely with sk->sk_family I fear.

Bye,
Hannes


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