netdev - [PATCH net] gre: add link local route when local addr is any

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Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:22:21 +0100
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	sesse@...fundet.no
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, itk-intern@...fundet.no,
	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] gre: add link local route when local addr is any

This bug was reported by Steinar H. Gunderson and was introduced by commit
f7cb8886335d ("sit/gre6: don't try to add the same route two times").

root@...gental:~# ip tunnel add foo mode gre remote 1.2.3.4 ttl 64
root@...gental:~# ip link set foo up mtu 1468
root@...gental:~# ip -6 route show dev foo
fe80::/64  proto kernel  metric 256

but after the above commit, no such route shows up.

There is no link local route because dev->dev_addr is 0 (because local ipv4
address is 0), hence no link local address is configured.

In this scenario, the link local address is added manually: 'ip -6 addr add
fe80::1 dev foo' and because prefix is /128, no link local route is added by the
kernel.

Even if the right things to do is to add the link local address with a /64
prefix, we need to restore the previous behavior to avoid breaking userpace.

Reported-by: Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@...fundet.no>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index ad235690684c..fdbfeca36d63 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2783,6 +2783,8 @@ static void addrconf_gre_config(struct net_device *dev)
 	ipv6_addr_set(&addr,  htonl(0xFE800000), 0, 0, 0);
 	if (!ipv6_generate_eui64(addr.s6_addr + 8, dev))
 		addrconf_add_linklocal(idev, &addr);
+	else
+		addrconf_prefix_route(&addr, 64, dev, 0, 0);
 }
 #endif

-- 
1.8.5.4

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