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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 21:19:50 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc:	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, rshearma@...cade.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, hannes@...essinduktion.org,
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	stephen@...workplumber.org, jpettit@...ira.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 11/22] dst: Metadata destinations

On 07/10/15 at 09:57pm, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 
> > --- a/net/ipv4/route.c
> > +++ b/net/ipv4/route.c
> > @@ -1691,6 +1691,8 @@ static int ip_route_input_slow(struct sk_buff *skb, __be32 daddr, __be32 saddr,
> >  	   by fib_lookup.
> >  	 */
> >  
> > +	skb_dst_drop(skb);
> > +
> 
> 	This is not very safe. There are places that
> call ip_route_input() for temporary lookups and they
> do not set NULL. For example, icmp_route_lookup(),
> may be there are other such places...

Wow. What a tremendous hack ;-) It saves and restores the original
dst ref to avoid the leaked reference.

> 	OTOH, ip_options_rcv_srr() looks correct to use
> skb_dst_set(skb, NULL), may be such call should be
> added if it is missing...

Agreed. This seems to be the right fix. I'll apply to this
icmp_route_lookup() as well.

Thanks!
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