netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: vrf: Fix crash when IPv6 is disabled at boot time

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Date:	Thu, 09 Jun 2016 23:34:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: vrf: Fix crash when IPv6 is disabled at
 boot time

From: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Thu,  9 Jun 2016 10:21:00 -0700

> Frank Kellermann reported a kernel crash with 4.5.0 when IPv6 is
> disabled at boot using the kernel option ipv6.disable=1. Using
> current net-next with the boot option:
> 
> $ ip link add red type vrf table 1001
 ...
> The problem above is due to the fact that the fib hash table is not
> allocated when IPv6 is disabled at boot.
> 
> As for the VRF driver it should not do any IPv6 initializations if IPv6
> is disabled, so it needs to know if IPv6 is disabled at boot. The disable
> parameter is private to the IPv6 module, so provide an accessor for
> modules to determine if IPv6 was disabled at boot time.
> 
> Fixes: 35402e3136634 ("net: Add IPv6 support to VRF device")
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Applied.