netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] ipv6: remove null_entry before adding default route

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2018 11:15:53 -0800
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 v2] ipv6: remove null_entry before adding default
 route

On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 10:34:00AM -0800, Wei Wang wrote:
> From: Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>
> 
> In the current code, when creating a new fib6 table, tb6_root.leaf gets
> initialized to net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry.
> If a default route is being added with rt->rt6i_metric = 0xffffffff,
> fib6_add() will add this route after net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry. As
> null_entry is shared, it could cause problem.
> 
> In order to fix it, set fn->leaf to NULL before calling
> fib6_add_rt2node() when trying to add the first default route.
> And reset fn->leaf to null_entry when adding fails or when deleting the
> last default route.
Thanks for the fix!

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