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-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index bdb222c0c6a2..5805762d7fc7 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -1193,7 +1193,12 @@ void ipv4_pktinfo_prepare(const struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
ipv6_sk_rxinfo(sk);
if (prepare && skb_rtable(skb)) {
- pktinfo->ipi_ifindex = inet_iif(skb);
+ /* skb->cb is overloaded: prior to this point it is IP{6}CB
+ * which has interface index (iif) as the first member of the
+ * underlying inet{6}_skb_parm struct. This code then overlays
+ * PKTINFO_SKB_CB and in_pktinfo also has iif as the first
+ * element so the iif is picked up from the prior IPCB
+ */
pktinfo->ipi_spec_dst.s_addr = fib_compute_spec_dst(skb);
} else {
pktinfo->ipi_ifindex = 0;