This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6: only call ip6_route_dev_notify() once for NETDEV_UNREGISTER
to the 4.4-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-only-call-ip6_route_dev_notify-once-for-netdev_unregister.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 76da0704507bbc51875013f6557877ab308cfd0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:42:27 -0700
Subject: ipv6: only call ip6_route_dev_notify() once for NETDEV_UNREGISTER
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 76da0704507bbc51875013f6557877ab308cfd0a upstream.
In commit 242d3a49a2a1 ("ipv6: reorder ip6_route_dev_notifier after ipv6_dev_notf")
I assumed NETDEV_REGISTER and NETDEV_UNREGISTER are paired,
unfortunately, as reported by jeffy, netdev_wait_allrefs()
could rebroadcast NETDEV_UNREGISTER event until all refs are
gone.
We have to add an additional check to avoid this corner case.
For netdev_wait_allrefs() dev->reg_state is NETREG_UNREGISTERED,
for dev_change_net_namespace(), dev->reg_state is
NETREG_REGISTERED. So check for dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED.
Fixes: 242d3a49a2a1 ("ipv6: reorder ip6_route_dev_notifier after ipv6_dev_notf")
Reported-by: jeffy <jeffy.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -3378,7 +3378,11 @@ static int ip6_route_dev_notify(struct n
net->ipv6.ip6_blk_hole_entry->dst.dev = dev;
net->ipv6.ip6_blk_hole_entry->rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
#endif
- } else if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER) {
+ } else if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER &&
+ dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED) {
+ /* NETDEV_UNREGISTER could be fired for multiple times by
+ * netdev_wait_allrefs(). Make sure we only call this once.
+ */
in6_dev_put(net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev);
#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
in6_dev_put(net->ipv6.ip6_prohibit_entry->rt6i_idev);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/vsock-use-new-wait-api-for-vsock_stream_sendmsg.patch
queue-4.4/ipv6-only-call-ip6_route_dev_notify-once-for-netdev_unregister.patch