3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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[ Upstream commit dcb94b88c09ce82a80e188d49bcffdc83ba215a6 ]
IPv6 ping socket error handler doesn't correctly convert the new 32 bit
mtu to host endianness before using.
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 6d0bfe22611602f ("net: ipv6: Add IPv6 support to the ping socket.")
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/icmp.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/icmp.c b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
index 97ae70077a4f..3b5c265dcb1d 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/icmp.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/icmp.c
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ static void icmpv6_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt,
if (!(type & ICMPV6_INFOMSG_MASK))
if (icmp6->icmp6_type == ICMPV6_ECHO_REQUEST)
- ping_err(skb, offset, info);
+ ping_err(skb, offset, ntohl(info));
}
static int icmpv6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb);
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2.19.1
