From 8112b1fe071be01a28a774ed55909e6f4b29712d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Pirko Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 16:02:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] ipv6/exthdrs: accept tlv which includes only padding 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 Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/ipv6/exthdrs.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c index 07a7d65a7cb6..8d67900aa003 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c +++ b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c @@ -162,12 +162,6 @@ static bool ip6_parse_tlv(const struct tlvtype_proc *procs, struct sk_buff *skb) 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; -- 2.39.5