On Tue, 2017-06-06 at 09:22 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> From: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit eea40b8f624f ("infiniband: call ipv6 route lookup via the stub
> interface") introduced a regression in address resolution when
> connecting
> to IPv6 destination addresses. The old code called
> ip6_route_output(),
> while the new code calls ipv6_stub->ipv6_dst_lookup(). The two are
> almost
> the same, except that ipv6_dst_lookup() also calls
> ip6_route_get_saddr()
> if the source address is in6addr_any.
>
> This means that the test of ipv6_addr_any(&fl6.saddr) now never
> succeeds,
> and so we never copy the source address out. This ends up causing
> rdma_resolve_addr() to fail, because without a resolved source
> address,
> cma_acquire_dev() will fail to find an RDMA device to use. For me,
> this
> causes connecting to an NVMe over Fabrics target via RoCE / IPv6 to
> fail.
>
> Fix this by copying out fl6.saddr if ipv6_addr_any() is true for the
> original
> source address passed into addr6_resolve(). We can drop our call to
> ipv6_dev_get_saddr() because ipv6_dst_lookup() already does that
> work.
>
> Fixes: eea40b8f624 ("infiniband: call ipv6 route lookup via the stub
> interface")
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.12+
> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks Roland, applied.
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