netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: Fix unbalanced rcu locking in rt6_update_exception_stamp

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Message-Id: <20190805.131724.1845867601454307764.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 05 Aug 2019 13:17:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dsahern@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: Fix unbalanced rcu locking in
 rt6_update_exception_stamp_rt

From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Date: Thu,  1 Aug 2019 14:36:35 -0700

> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> 
> The nexthop path in rt6_update_exception_stamp_rt needs to call
> rcu_read_unlock if it fails to find a fib6_nh match rather than
> just returning.
> 
> Fixes: e659ba31d806 ("ipv6: Handle all fib6_nh in a nexthop in exception handling")
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Applied.