The reserved implicit-NULL label isn't allowed to appear in the label stack for packets, so make it an error for the control plane to specify it as an outgoing label.
Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebied...@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Robert Shearman <rshea...@brocade.com> --- net/mpls/af_mpls.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c index 7ac93082e3dc..eb8dc411859d 100644 --- a/net/mpls/af_mpls.c +++ b/net/mpls/af_mpls.c @@ -653,6 +653,15 @@ int nla_get_labels(const struct nlattr *nla, if ((dec.bos != bos) || dec.ttl || dec.tc) return -EINVAL; + switch (dec.label) { + case LABEL_IMPLICIT_NULL: + /* RFC3032: This is a label that an LSR may + * assign and distribute, but which never + * actually appears in the encapsulation. + */ + return -EINVAL; + } + label[i] = dec.label; } *labels = nla_labels; -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html