3.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 8112b1fe071be01a28a774ed55909e6f4b29712d ] In rfc4942 and rfc2460 I cannot find anything which would implicate to drop packets which have only padding in tlv. Current behaviour breaks TAHI Test v6LC.1.2.6. Problem was intruduced in: 9b905fe6843 "ipv6/exthdrs: strict Pad1 and PadN check" Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/exthdrs.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c +++ b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c @@ -162,12 +162,6 @@ static bool ip6_parse_tlv(const struct t off += optlen; len -= optlen; } - /* This case will not be caught by above check since its padding - * length is smaller than 7: - * 1 byte NH + 1 byte Length + 6 bytes Padding - */ - if ((padlen == 6) && ((off - skb_network_header_len(skb)) == 8)) - goto bad; if (len == 0) return true; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html