On 5/4/17 10:51 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 14:28:37 +0200
> 
>> On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Andrey reported a crash on init_net.ipv6.ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev
>>> since it is always NULL.
>>>
>>> This is clearly wrong, we have code to initialize it to loopback_dev,
>>> unfortunately the order is still not correct.
>>>
>>> loopback_dev is registered very early during boot, we lose a chance
>>> to re-initialize it in notifier. addrconf_init() is called after
>>> ip6_route_init(), which means we have no chance to correct it.
>>>
>>> Fix it by moving this initialization explicitly after
>>> ipv6_add_dev(init_net.loopback_dev) in addrconf_init().
>>>
>>> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
>>
>> Hi Cong,
>>
>> This fixes the bug triggered by my reproducer.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com>
> 
> Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
> 

This is not the complete solution; it only fixes init_net. It still
blows up when you do:

unshare -n
./rt6_device_match


same exact stack trace

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