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authorWANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2017-06-21 14:34:58 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-06-22 13:21:44 -0400
commit60abc0be96e00ca71bac083215ac91ad2e575096 (patch)
treefe2faac629a89738ba334d92eab198b800101e99 /drivers/net
parent8c4354ef590ec8b3b10eb7f29d8c8ae56709b96b (diff)
ipv6: avoid unregistering inet6_dev for loopback
The per netns loopback_dev->ip6_ptr is unregistered and set to NULL when its mtu is set to smaller than IPV6_MIN_MTU, this leads to that we could set rt->rt6i_idev NULL after a rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev() and then crash after another call. In this case we should just bring its inet6_dev down, rather than unregistering it, at least prior to commit 176c39af29bc ("netns: fix addrconf_ifdown kernel panic") we always override the case for loopback. Thanks a lot to Andrey for finding a reliable reproducer. Fixes: 176c39af29bc ("netns: fix addrconf_ifdown kernel panic") Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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