netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: fix IPv6 prefix route residue

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 20:38:01 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     liuzhiqiang26@...wei.com
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, 0xeffeff@...il.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        mingfangsen@...wei.com, zhangwenhao8@...wei.com,
        wangxiaogang3@...wei.com, zhoukang7@...wei.com, dsahern@...il.com,
        thaller@...hat.com, maowenan@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fix IPv6 prefix route residue

From: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@...wei.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 10:57:46 +0800

> From: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@...wei.com>
> 
> Follow those steps:
>  # ip addr add 2001:123::1/32 dev eth0
>  # ip addr add 2001:123:456::2/64 dev eth0
>  # ip addr del 2001:123::1/32 dev eth0
>  # ip addr del 2001:123:456::2/64 dev eth0
> and then prefix route of 2001:123::1/32 will still exist.
> 
> This is because ipv6_prefix_equal in check_cleanup_prefix_route
> func does not check whether two IPv6 addresses have the same
> prefix length. If the prefix of one address starts with another
> shorter address prefix, even though their prefix lengths are
> different, the return value of ipv6_prefix_equal is true.
> 
> Here I add a check of whether two addresses have the same prefix
> to decide whether their prefixes are equal.
> 
> Fixes: 5b84efecb7d9 ("ipv6 addrconf: don't cleanup prefix route
> for IFA_F_NOPREFIXROUTE")
> Signed-off-by: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@...wei.com>
> Reported-by: Wenhao Zhang <zhangwenhao8@...wei.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.

Please do not split up long Fixes: tag lines, keep the entire tag on
one line only.

I fixed it up for you this time.

Thanks.