ipv6: reset dst.expires value when clearing expire flag
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: Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> Reported-by: Valentijn Sessink <valentyn@blub.net> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Tested-by: Valentijn Sessink <valentyn@blub.net> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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