Several callers (conntrack_h323, xt_addrtype) assume that the returned **dst only needs to be released if the function returns 0. Instead of changing the callers, fix the ipv6 implementation to behave like the ipv4 version by only providing *dst result in the success case. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/netfilter.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter.c b/net/ipv6/netfilter.c index 30fcee4..8992cf6 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/netfilter.c +++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter.c @@ -100,9 +100,16 @@ static int nf_ip6_route(struct net *net, struct dst_entry **dst, .pinet6 = (struct ipv6_pinfo *) &fake_pinfo, }; const void *sk = strict ? &fake_sk : NULL; - - *dst = ip6_route_output(net, sk, &fl->u.ip6); - return (*dst)->error; + struct dst_entry *result; + int err; + + result = ip6_route_output(net, sk, &fl->u.ip6); + err = result->error; + if (err) + dst_release(result); + else + *dst = result; + return err; } __sum16 nf_ip6_checksum(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int hook, -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html