[PATCH 3.8 30/81] ipv6/exthdrs: accept tlv which includes only padding

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.8.13.12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri at resnulli.us>

[ 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 at resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/exthdrs.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
index 07a7d65..8d67900 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;
-- 
1.8.1.2