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    ipv6: reset dst.expires value when clearing expire flag · 01ba16d6
    Hannes Frederic Sowa authored
    On receiving a packet too big icmp error we update the expire value by
    calling rt6_update_expires. This function uses dst_set_expires which is
    implemented that it can only reduce the expiration value of the dst entry.
    
    If we insert new routing non-expiry information into the ipv6 fib where
    we already have a matching rt6_info we only clear the RTF_EXPIRES flag
    in rt6i_flags and leave the dst.expires value as is.
    
    When new mtu information arrives for that cached dst_entry we again
    call dst_set_expires. This time it won't update the dst.expire value
    because we left the dst.expire value intact from the last update. So
    dst_set_expires won't touch dst.expires.
    
    Fix this by resetting dst.expires when clearing the RTF_EXPIRE flag.
    dst_set_expires checks for a zero expiration and updates the
    dst.expires.
    
    In the past this (not updating dst.expires) was necessary because
    dst.expire was placed in a union with the dst_entry *from reference
    and rt6_clean_expires did assign NULL to it. This split happend in
    ecd98837
    
     ("ipv6: fix race condition
    regarding dst->expires and dst->from").
    
    Reported-by: default avatarSteinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarValentijn Sessink <valentyn@blub.net>
    Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarValentijn Sessink <valentyn@blub.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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