Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 09:11:50PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 06:00:40 +0100
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > We don't need this for IPv6 yet. Once we get nf_conntrack in we
> > might need this, but its IPv6 fragment handling is different from
> > ip_conntrack, I need to check first.
> 
> Right, ipv6 netfilter cannot create this situation yet.

Not through netfilter but I'm not convinced that other paths
won't do this.

For instance, what about ipv6_frag_rcv -> esp6_input -> ... -> ip6_fragment?
That would seem to be a potential path for a non-NULL dst to survive
through to ip6_fragment, no?

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