Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6: avoid blackhole and prohibited entries upon prefix purge [v2]

From: Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:43:12 +0100

Le 07/01/2013 12:30, Romain KUNTZ a écrit :
> Hello Nicolas,
>
> On Jan 7, 2013, at 11:25 , Nicolas Dichtel <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>> Le 05/01/2013 22:44, Romain KUNTZ a écrit :
>>> Mobile IPv6 provokes a kernel Oops since commit 64c6d08e (ipv6:
>>> del unreachable route when an addr is deleted on lo), because
>>> ip6_route_lookup() may also return blackhole and prohibited
>>> entry. However, these entries have a NULL rt6i_table argument,
>>> which provokes an Oops in __ip6_del_rt() when trying to lock
>>> rt6i_table->tb6_lock.
>>>
>>> Beside, when purging a prefix, blakhole and prohibited entries
>>> should not be selected because they are not what we are looking
>>> for.
>>>
>>> We fix this by adding two new lookup flags (RT6_LOOKUP_F_NO_BLK_HOLE
>>> and RT6_LOOKUP_F_NO_PROHIBIT) in order to ensure that such entries
>>> are skipped during lookup and that the correct entry is returned.
>>>
>>> [v2]: use 'goto out;' instead of 'goto again;' to avoid unnecessary
>>> oprations on rt (as suggested by Eric Dumazet).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Romain Kuntz <[email-masked]>
>>> ---
>>>   include/net/ip6_route.h |    2 ++
>>>   net/ipv6/addrconf.c     |    4 +++-
>>>   net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c   |    4 ++++
>>>   3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/net/ip6_route.h b/include/net/ip6_route.h
>>> index 27d8318..3c93743 100644
>>> --- a/include/net/ip6_route.h
>>> +++ b/include/net/ip6_route.h
>>> @@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ struct route_info {
>>>   #define RT6_LOOKUP_F_SRCPREF_TMP	0x00000008
>>>   #define RT6_LOOKUP_F_SRCPREF_PUBLIC	0x00000010
>>>   #define RT6_LOOKUP_F_SRCPREF_COA	0x00000020
>>> +#define RT6_LOOKUP_F_NO_BLK_HOLE	0x00000040
>>> +#define RT6_LOOKUP_F_NO_PROHIBIT	0x00000080
>>>
>>>   /*
>>>    * rt6_srcprefs2flags() and rt6_flags2srcprefs() translate
>>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>>> index 408cac4a..1891e23 100644
>>> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>>> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
>>> @@ -948,7 +948,9 @@ static void ipv6_del_addr(struct inet6_ifaddr *ifp)
>>>   		fl6.flowi6_oif = ifp->idev->dev->ifindex;
>>>   		fl6.daddr = prefix;
>>>   		rt = (struct rt6_info *)ip6_route_lookup(net, &fl6,
>>> -							 RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE);
>>> +						RT6_LOOKUP_F_IFACE |
>>> +						RT6_LOOKUP_F_NO_BLK_HOLE |
>>> +						RT6_LOOKUP_F_NO_PROHIBIT);
>>>
>>>   		if (rt != net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry &&
>> Is it not simpler to test the result here (net->ipv6.ip6_blk_hole_entry and
>> net->ipv6.ip6_prohibit_entry) like for the null_entry?
>> It will also avoid adding more flags.
>
> Your proposal would only solve part of the problem (the Oops in __ip6_del_rt()). Another problem here is that blackhole and prohibited rules should not be selected when trying to purge a prefix (correct me if I'm wrong) because they are not what we are looking for. This can prevent the targeted prefix from being purged.
In fact, I'm not sure to get the scenario. This part of the code just tries
to remove the connected prefix, added by the kernel when the address was added.
Can you describe your scenario?