From c56bf6fe785abbd83751a462f0c7067f7145b97a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 09:19:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: fix a bad cast in ip6_dst_lookup_tail()
Fix a bug in ip6_dst_lookup_tail(), where typeof(dst) is
"struct dst_entry **", not "struct dst_entry *"
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 6d9c0abc8c20..c6af5963a202 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -975,7 +975,7 @@ static int ip6_dst_lookup_tail(struct sock *sk,
* dst entry of the nexthop router
*/
rcu_read_lock();
- rt = (struct rt6_info *) dst;
+ rt = (struct rt6_info *) *dst;
n = rt->n;
if (n && !(n->nud_state & NUD_VALID)) {
struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp;
--
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