Currently the kernel IPv6 implementation is not dicarding the fragment queue upon receiving a IPv6 fragment that is not 8 bytes aligned. It relies on queue expiration to free the queue. While RFC 8200 section 4.5 does not explicitly mention that the rest of fragments must be discarded, it does not make sense to keep them. The parameter problem message is sent regardless that. In addition, if the sender is able to re-compose the datagram so it is 8 bytes aligned it would qualify as a new whole datagram not fitting into the same fragment queue. The sooner we can free resources during reassembly, the better. Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera --- net/ipv6/reassembly.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv6/reassembly.c b/net/ipv6/reassembly.c index 25ec8001898d..8b0bc0ba56f4 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/reassembly.c +++ b/net/ipv6/reassembly.c @@ -163,6 +163,9 @@ static int ip6_frag_queue(struct net *net, * this case. -DaveM */ *prob_offset = offsetof(struct ipv6hdr, payload_len); + inet_frag_kill(&fq->q, refs); + __IP6_INC_STATS(net, ip6_dst_idev(skb_dst(skb)), + IPSTATS_MIB_REASMFAILS); return -1; } if (end > fq->q.len) { -- 2.53.0