net/route: enforce hoplimit max value
authorPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Fri, 13 May 2016 16:33:41 +0000 (18:33 +0200)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:28:12 +0000 (15:28 +0100)
commit246e7965d0e9043d7d265a000a8dba6ad7148ccd
treec6672f10b879dc1ce46a701eee68bd2995a28c53
parentb97f7773a3aa57402868958eab4560b7de317287
net/route: enforce hoplimit max value

[ Upstream commit 626abd59e51d4d8c6367e03aae252a8aa759ac78 ]

Currently, when creating or updating a route, no check is performed
in both ipv4 and ipv6 code to the hoplimit value.

The caller can i.e. set hoplimit to 256, and when such route will
 be used, packets will be sent with hoplimit/ttl equal to 0.

This commit adds checks for the RTAX_HOPLIMIT value, in both ipv4
ipv6 route code, substituting any value greater than 255 with 255.

This is consistent with what is currently done for ADVMSS and MTU
in the ipv4 code.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: for IPv6, add the check to fib6_commit_metrics()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c
net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c