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Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:20:44 +0800
From:   Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] ipv6/addrconf: call ipv6_mc_up() for non-Ethernet interface

Rafał found an issue that for non-Ethernet interface, if we down and up
frequently, the memory will be consumed slowly.

The reason is we add allnodes/allrouters addressed in multicast list in
ipv6_add_dev(). When link down, we call ipv6_mc_down(), store all multicast
addresses via mld_add_delrec(). But when link up, we don't call ipv6_mc_up()
for non-Ethernet interface to remove the addresses. This makes idev->mc_tomb
getting bigger and bigger. The call stack looks like:

addrconf_notify(NETDEV_REGISTER)
	ipv6_add_dev
		ipv6_dev_mc_inc(ff01::1)
		ipv6_dev_mc_inc(ff02::1)
		ipv6_dev_mc_inc(ff02::2)

addrconf_notify(NETDEV_UP)
	addrconf_dev_config
		/* Alas, we support only Ethernet autoconfiguration. */
		return;

addrconf_notify(NETDEV_DOWN)
	addrconf_ifdown
		ipv6_mc_down
			igmp6_group_dropped(ff02::2)
				mld_add_delrec(ff02::2)
			igmp6_group_dropped(ff02::1)
			igmp6_group_dropped(ff01::1)

After investigating, I can't found a rule to disable multicast on
non-Ethernet interface. In RFC2460, the link could be Ethernet, PPP, ATM,
tunnels, etc. In IPv4, it doesn't check the dev type when calls ip_mc_up()
in inetdev_event(). Even for IPv6, we don't check the dev type and call
ipv6_add_dev(), ipv6_dev_mc_inc() after register device.

So I think it's OK to fix this memory consumer by calling ipv6_mc_up() for
non-Ethernet interface.

Reported-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Fixes: 74235a25c673 ("[IPV6] addrconf: Fix IPv6 on tuntap tunnels")
Fixes: 1666d49e1d41 ("mld: do not remove mld souce list info when set link down")
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index e6e1290ea06f..56cdd3fda366 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -3347,6 +3347,9 @@ static void addrconf_dev_config(struct net_device *dev)
 	    (dev->type != ARPHRD_NONE) &&
 	    (dev->type != ARPHRD_RAWIP)) {
 		/* Alas, we support only Ethernet autoconfiguration. */
+		idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
+		if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(idev) && dev->flags & IFF_UP)
+			ipv6_mc_up(idev);
 		return;
 	}

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