netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] geneve: should not call rt6

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Message-ID: <c831ef48-1202-82d8-7663-bd7462e2a596@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 6 Feb 2019 08:43:23 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] geneve: should not call rt6_lookup() when ipv6
 was disabled



On 02/06/2019 04:51 AM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> When we add a new GENEVE device with IPv6 remote, checking only for
> IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6) is not enough as we may disable IPv6 in kernel
> cmd(ipv6.disable=1), which will cause a NULL pointer dereference.
> 
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/geneve.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/geneve.c b/drivers/net/geneve.c
> index 58bbba8582b0..0658715581e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/geneve.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/geneve.c
> @@ -1512,6 +1512,10 @@ static void geneve_link_config(struct net_device *dev,
>  	}
>  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)
>  	case AF_INET6: {
> +		struct inet6_dev *idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
> +		if (!idev)
> +			break;

Do not mix declarations and code.

Instead, use :
		struct inet6_dev *idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
		struct rt6_info *rt;

		if (!idev)
			break;
		rt = rt6_lookup(geneve->net, ...);

> +
>  		struct rt6_info *rt = rt6_lookup(geneve->net,
>  						 &info->key.u.ipv6.dst, NULL, 0,
>  						 NULL, 0);
> @@ -1519,6 +1523,8 @@ static void geneve_link_config(struct net_device *dev,
>  		if (rt && rt->dst.dev)
>  			ldev_mtu = rt->dst.dev->mtu - GENEVE_IPV6_HLEN;
>  		ip6_rt_put(rt);
> +
> +		in6_dev_put(idev);
>  		break;
>  	}
>  #endif
>