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Improve checksum computation via IPV6_CHECKSUM for received packets
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Authored by tuexen on Apr 19 2019, 4:42 PM.
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When computing the checksum for a received packet, ensure that you have enough bytes in the packet such that it contains the checksum. This fixes in particular syzbot, which was injecting an empty (plen = 0) packet, which resulted in a panic.

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Again can you please mention "... in rip6_input() ..." in the commit message.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Apr 19 2019, 5:06 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.