netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: change route cache aging logic

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:39:44 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: change route cache aging logic

On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 11:40 -0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> From: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> 
> In current route cache aging logic, if a route has both RTF_EXPIRE and
> RTF_GATEWAY set, the route will only be removed if the neighbor cache
> has no RTN_ROUTE flag. Otherwise, even if the route has expired, it
> won't get deleted.
> Fix this logic to always check if the route has expired first and then
> do the gateway neighbor cache check if previous check decide to not
> remove the exception entry.
> 
> Fixes: 1859bac04fb6 ("ipv6: remove from fib tree aged out RTF_CACHE dst")
> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thank you for the fix!

LGTM

Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Cheers,

/P