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-rw-r--r--pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
index 880290b4b..febbb3f38 100644
--- a/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
+++ b/pkg/tcpip/network/ipv6/ipv6.go
@@ -1472,13 +1472,19 @@ func (e *endpoint) processExtensionHeaders(h header.IPv6, pkt *stack.PacketBuffe
// If the last header in the payload isn't a known IPv6 extension header,
// handle it as if it is transport layer data.
+ // Calculate the number of octets parsed from data. We want to remove all
+ // the data except the unparsed portion located at the end, which its size
+ // is extHdr.Buf.Size().
+ trim := pkt.Data().Size() - extHdr.Buf.Size()
+
// For unfragmented packets, extHdr still contains the transport header.
// Get rid of it.
//
// For reassembled fragments, pkt.TransportHeader is unset, so this is a
// no-op and pkt.Data begins with the transport header.
- extHdr.Buf.TrimFront(pkt.TransportHeader().View().Size())
- pkt.Data().Replace(extHdr.Buf)
+ trim += pkt.TransportHeader().View().Size()
+
+ pkt.Data().DeleteFront(trim)
stats.PacketsDelivered.Increment()
if p := tcpip.TransportProtocolNumber(extHdr.Identifier); p == header.ICMPv6ProtocolNumber {