Hello,
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> When creating a new ipvs service, ipv6 addresses are always accepted
> if CONFIG_IP_VS_IPV6 is enabled. On dest creation the address family
> is not explicitly checked.
>
> This allows the user-space to configure ipvs services even if the
> system is booted with ipv6.disable=1. On specific configuration, ipvs
> can try to call ipv6 routing code at setup time, causing the kernel to
> oops due to fib6_rules_ops being NULL.
>
> This change addresses the issue adding a check for the ipv6
> module being enabled while validating ipv6 service operations and
> adding the same validation for dest operations.
>
> According to git history, this issue is apparently present since
> the introduction of ipv6 support, and the oops can be triggered
> since commit 09571c7ae30865ad ("IPVS: Add function to determine
> if IPv6 address is local")
>
> Fixes: 09571c7ae30865ad ("IPVS: Add function to determine if IPv6 address is local")
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good to me but I see two places that can benefit
from such check:
- in ip_vs_genl_new_daemon() if we do not want to create IPv6 sockets
for the sync protocol in make_send_sock() and make_receive_sock().
Not sure if this can lead to crashes.
- in ip_vs_proc_sync_conn() if we do not want backup server to accept
IPv6 conns because they may be created even when dests are missing.
We may use retc = 10 there. Not fatal but may eat memory for
conns that will not be used.
Regards
--
Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
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