This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ipv6: fix missing dst ref drop in ila lwtunnel
to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-ipv6-fix-missing-dst-ref-drop-in-ila-lwtunnel.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit eb47dbb11a97325c6327b31584584b7d433f69ac
Author: Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Mar 5 09:16:55 2025 +0100
net: ipv6: fix missing dst ref drop in ila lwtunnel
[ Upstream commit 5da15a9c11c1c47ef573e6805b60a7d8a1687a2a ]
Add missing skb_dst_drop() to drop reference to the old dst before
adding the new dst to the skb.
Fixes: 79ff2fc31e0f ("ila: Cache a route to translated address")
Cc: Tom Herbert <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Justin Iurman <justin.iurman@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250305081655.19032-1-justin.iurman@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c b/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c
index 6d37dda3d26fc..7397f764c66cc 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ila/ila_lwt.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static int ila_output(struct net *net, struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
}
}
+ skb_dst_drop(skb);
skb_dst_set(skb, dst);
return dst_output(net, sk, skb);
