On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 10:12 AM, David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

This is why I sent
[Patch net] ipv6: reorder ip6_route_dev_notifier after ipv6_dev_notf

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