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Message-Id: <20190825.143246.1565839919556239720.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:32:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: dsahern@...nel.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, sharpd@...ulusnetworks.com,
dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] nexthop: Fix nexthop_num_path for blackhole
nexthops
From: David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 07:47:30 -0700
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
>
> Donald reported this sequence:
> ip next add id 1 blackhole
> ip next add id 2 blackhole
> ip ro add 1.1.1.1/32 nhid 1
> ip ro add 1.1.1.2/32 nhid 2
>
> would cause a crash. Backtrace is:
...
> fib_dump_info incorrectly has nhs = 0 for blackhole nexthops, so it
> believes the nexthop object is a multipath group (nhs != 1) and ends
> up down the nexthop_mpath_fill_node() path which is wrong for a
> blackhole.
>
> The blackhole check in nexthop_num_path is leftover from early days
> of the blackhole implementation which did not initialize the device.
> In the end the design was simpler (fewer special case checks) to set
> the device to loopback in nh_info, so the check in nexthop_num_path
> should have been removed.
>
> Fixes: 430a049190de ("nexthop: Add support for nexthop groups")
> Reported-by: Donald Sharp <sharpd@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Applied, thanks David.
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