From: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@xxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ 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: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/route.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index 1d0c5d66d637..0464f9a9d2dc 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static u32 *ipv6_cow_metrics(struct dst_entry *dst, unsigned long old) 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) { -- 2.3.0 -- 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