netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: add ip6_null_entry check in rt6

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Date:   Mon, 23 Oct 2017 15:27:20 -0700
From:   Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
To:     Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
CC:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: add ip6_null_entry check in rt6_select()

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 09:59:35PM +0000, Wei Wang wrote:
> From: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> 
> In rt6_select(), fn->leaf could be pointing to net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry.
> In this case, we should directly return instead of trying to carry on
> with the rest of the process.
> If not, we could crash at:
>   spin_lock_bh(&leaf->rt6i_table->rt6_lock);
> because net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry does not have rt6i_table set.
Make sense. leaf->rt6i_table->rt6_lock is only needed after the rcu work.

Thanks for fixing it!

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>