ip6_route_info_create() invokes nexthop_get(), which increases the
refcount of the "nh".
When ip6_route_info_create() returns, local variable "nh" becomes
invalid, so the refcount should be decreased to keep refcount balanced.
The reference counting issue happens in one exception handling path of
ip6_route_info_create(). When nexthops can not be used with source
routing, the function forgets to decrease the refcnt increased by
nexthop_get(), causing a refcnt leak.
Fix this issue by pulling up the error source routing handling when
nexthops can not be used with source routing.
Fixes: f88d8ea67fbd ("ipv6: Plumb support for nexthop object in a fib6_info")
Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
        rt->fib6_src.plen = cfg->fc_src_len;
 #endif
        if (nh) {
-               if (!nexthop_get(nh)) {
-                       NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Nexthop has been deleted");
-                       goto out;
-               }
                if (rt->fib6_src.plen) {
                        NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Nexthops can not be used with source routing");
                        goto out;
                }
+               if (!nexthop_get(nh)) {
+                       NL_SET_ERR_MSG(extack, "Nexthop has been deleted");
+                       goto out;
+               }
                rt->nh = nh;
                fib6_nh = nexthop_fib6_nh(rt->nh);
        } else {