This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: delay fib6_sernum increase in fib6_add
to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipv6-delay-fib6_sernum-increase-in-fib6_add.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 37073983a482f96c20a32f6729d2b65615a825b3
Author: zhang kai <zhangkaiheb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Sep 9 16:39:18 2021 +0800
ipv6: delay fib6_sernum increase in fib6_add
[ Upstream commit e87b5052271e39d62337ade531992b7e5d8c2cfa ]
only increase fib6_sernum in net namespace after add fib6_info
successfully.
Signed-off-by: zhang kai <zhangkaiheb@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
index bb68290ad68d..9a6f66e0e9a2 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -1310,7 +1310,6 @@ int fib6_add(struct fib6_node *root, struct fib6_info *rt,
int err = -ENOMEM;
int allow_create = 1;
int replace_required = 0;
- int sernum = fib6_new_sernum(info->nl_net);
if (info->nlh) {
if (!(info->nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_CREATE))
@@ -1410,7 +1409,7 @@ int fib6_add(struct fib6_node *root, struct fib6_info *rt,
if (!err) {
if (rt->nh)
list_add(&rt->nh_list, &rt->nh->f6i_list);
- __fib6_update_sernum_upto_root(rt, sernum);
+ __fib6_update_sernum_upto_root(rt, fib6_new_sernum(info->nl_net));
fib6_start_gc(info->nl_net, rt);
}
