netdev - [PATCH net v3 2/2] ip6_fib: Don't discard nodes with valid routing information in fib6_locate

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Date:   Sat,  8 Jun 2019 20:12:10 +0200
From:   Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>, Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net v3 2/2] ip6_fib: Don't discard nodes with valid routing information in fib6_locate_1()

When we perform an inexact match on FIB nodes via fib6_locate_1(), longer
prefixes will be preferred to shorter ones. However, it might happen that
a node, with higher fn_bit value than some other, has no valid routing
information.

In this case, we'll pick that node, but it will be discarded by the check
on RTN_RTINFO in fib6_locate(), and we might miss nodes with valid routing
information but with lower fn_bit value.

This is apparent when a routing exception is created for a default route:
 # ip -6 route list
 fc00:1::/64 dev veth_A-R1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
 fc00:2::/64 dev veth_A-R2 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
 fc00:4::1 via fc00:2::2 dev veth_A-R2 metric 1024 pref medium
 fe80::/64 dev veth_A-R1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
 fe80::/64 dev veth_A-R2 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
 default via fc00:1::2 dev veth_A-R1 metric 1024 pref medium
 # ip -6 route list cache
 fc00:4::1 via fc00:2::2 dev veth_A-R2 metric 1024 expires 593sec mtu 1500 pref medium
 fc00:3::1 via fc00:1::2 dev veth_A-R1 metric 1024 expires 593sec mtu 1500 pref medium
 # ip -6 route flush cache    # node for default route is discarded
 Failed to send flush request: No such process
 # ip -6 route list cache
 fc00:3::1 via fc00:1::2 dev veth_A-R1 metric 1024 expires 586sec mtu 1500 pref medium

Check right away if the node has a RTN_RTINFO flag, before replacing the
'prev' pointer, that indicates the longest matching prefix found so far.

Fixes: 38fbeeeeccdb ("ipv6: prepare fib6_locate() for exception table")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>
---
v3: No changes

v2: No changes

 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
index 73dbad54baea..1b68d0d5b6f1 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
@@ -1542,7 +1542,8 @@ static struct fib6_node *fib6_locate_1(struct fib6_node *root,
 		if (plen == fn->fn_bit)
 			return fn;
 
-		prev = fn;
+		if (fn->fn_flags & RTN_RTINFO)
+			prev = fn;
 
 next:
 		/*
-- 
2.20.1