This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: fix ipv6_cow_metrics for non DST_HOST case to the 3.19-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-fix-ipv6_cow_metrics-for-non-dst_host-case.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Mar 11 11:44:33 CET 2015 From: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 16:14:08 -0800 Subject: ipv6: fix ipv6_cow_metrics for non DST_HOST case From: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3b4711757d7903ab6fa88a9e7ab8901b8227da60 ] ipv6_cow_metrics() currently assumes only DST_HOST routes require dynamic metrics allocation from inetpeer. The assumption breaks when ndisc discovered router with RTAX_MTU and RTAX_HOPLIMIT metric. Refer to ndisc_router_discovery() in ndisc.c and note that dst_metric_set() is called after the route is created. This patch creates the metrics array (by calling dst_cow_metrics_generic) in ipv6_cow_metrics(). Test: radvd.conf: interface qemubr0 { AdvLinkMTU 1300; AdvCurHopLimit 30; prefix fd00:face:face:face::/64 { AdvOnLink on; AdvAutonomous on; AdvRouterAddr off; }; }; Before: [root@qemu1 ~]# ip -6 r show | egrep -v unreachable fd00:face:face:face::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 expires 27sec fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 default via fe80::74df:d0ff:fe23:8ef2 dev eth0 proto ra metric 1024 expires 27sec After: [root@qemu1 ~]# ip -6 r show | egrep -v unreachable fd00:face:face:face::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 expires 27sec mtu 1300 fe80::/64 dev eth0 proto kernel metric 256 mtu 1300 default via fe80::74df:d0ff:fe23:8ef2 dev eth0 proto ra metric 1024 expires 27sec mtu 1300 hoplimit 30 Fixes: 8e2ec639173f325 (ipv6: don't use inetpeer to store metrics for routes.) Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ static u32 *ipv6_cow_metrics(struct dst_ u32 *p = NULL; if (!(rt->dst.flags & DST_HOST)) - return NULL; + return dst_cow_metrics_generic(dst, old); peer = rt6_get_peer_create(rt); if (peer) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kafai@xxxxxx are queue-3.19/ipv6-fix-ipv6_cow_metrics-for-non-dst_host-case.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html