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    net: make skb_dst_force return true when dst is refcounted · 832d0ea7
    Florian Westphal authored
    [ Upstream commit b60a7738 ]
    
    netfilter did not expect that skb_dst_force() can cause skb to lose its
    dst entry.
    
    I got a bug report with a skb->dst NULL dereference in netfilter
    output path.  The backtrace contains nf_reinject(), so the dst might have
    been cleared when skb got queued to userspace.
    
    Other users were fixed via
    if (skb_dst(skb)) {
    	skb_dst_force(skb);
    	if (!skb_dst(skb))
    		goto handle_err;
    }
    
    But I think its preferable to make the 'dst might be cleared' part
    of the function explicit.
    
    In netfilter case, skb with a null dst is expected when queueing in
    prerouting hook, so drop skb for the other hooks.
    
    v2:
     v1 of this patch returned true in case skb had no dst entry.
     Eric said:
       Say if we have two skb_dst_force() calls for some reason
       on the same skb, only the first one will return false.
    
     This now returns false even when skb had no dst, as per Erics
     suggestion, so callers might need to check skb_dst() first before
     skb_dst_force().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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