ipv6/exthdrs: accept tlv which includes only padding
In rfc4942 and rfc2460 I cannot find anything which would implicate to
drop packets which have only padding in tlv.
Current behaviour breaks TAHI Test v6LC.1.2.6.
Problem was intruduced in:
9b905fe6843 "ipv6/exthdrs: strict Pad1 and PadN check"
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
index 07a7d65..8d67900 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/exthdrs.c
@@ -162,12 +162,6 @@
off += optlen;
len -= optlen;
}
- /* This case will not be caught by above check since its padding
- * length is smaller than 7:
- * 1 byte NH + 1 byte Length + 6 bytes Padding
- */
- if ((padlen == 6) && ((off - skb_network_header_len(skb)) == 8))
- goto bad;
if (len == 0)
return true;
