This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/ipv6: Fix the RT cache flush via sysctl using a previous delay
to the 6.1-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:
net-ipv6-fix-the-rt-cache-flush-via-sysctl-using-a-p.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit cdc964e3344b88619b8925ccec0c6ac4392af4d5
Author: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jun 7 13:28:28 2024 +0200
net/ipv6: Fix the RT cache flush via sysctl using a previous delay
[ Upstream commit 14a20e5b4ad998793c5f43b0330d9e1388446cf3 ]
The net.ipv6.route.flush system parameter takes a value which specifies
a delay used during the flush operation for aging exception routes. The
written value is however not used in the currently requested flush and
instead utilized only in the next one.
A problem is that ipv6_sysctl_rtcache_flush() first reads the old value
of net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay into a local delay variable and then
calls proc_dointvec() which actually updates the sysctl based on the
provided input.
Fix the problem by switching the order of the two operations.
Fixes: 4990509f19e8 ("[NETNS][IPV6]: Make sysctls route per namespace.")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607112828.30285-1-petr.pavlu@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index 627431722f9d6..d305051e8ab5f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -6335,12 +6335,12 @@ static int ipv6_sysctl_rtcache_flush(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
if (!write)
return -EINVAL;
- net = (struct net *)ctl->extra1;
- delay = net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay;
ret = proc_dointvec(ctl, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
if (ret)
return ret;
+ net = (struct net *)ctl->extra1;
+ delay = net->ipv6.sysctl.flush_delay;
fib6_run_gc(delay <= 0 ? 0 : (unsigned long)delay, net, delay > 0);
return 0;
}
