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Florian Westphal 8a89054a1e neigh: let neigh_xmit take skb ownership
[ Upstream commit 4438113be6 ]

neigh_xmit always releases the skb, except when no neighbour table is
found. But even the first added user of neigh_xmit (mpls) relied on
neigh_xmit to release the skb (or queue it for tx).

sashiko reported:
 If neigh_xmit() is called with an uninitialized neighbor table (for
 example, NEIGH_ND_TABLE when IPv6 is disabled), it returns -EAFNOSUPPORT
 and bypasses its internal out_kfree_skb error path.  Because the return
 value of neigh_xmit() is ignored here, does this leak the SKB?

Assume full ownership and remove the last code path that doesn't
xmit or free skb.

Fixes: 4fd3d7d9e8 ("neigh: Add helper function neigh_xmit")
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424145843.74055-1-fw@strlen.de
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2026-06-01 17:39:28 +02:00
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2024-12-14 19:53:33 +01:00