[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "net IPv6 : Fix broken IPv6 routing table after loopback" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed May 1 23:34:33 UTC 2013
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
net IPv6 : Fix broken IPv6 routing table after loopback
to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 2d222819984f6e04d227c0fc8e2cdb0b0b4ce31f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Balakumaran Kannan <kumaran.4353 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:15:05 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] net IPv6 : Fix broken IPv6 routing table after loopback
down-up
commit 25fb6ca4ed9cad72f14f61629b68dc03c0d9713f upstream.
IPv6 Routing table becomes broken once we do ifdown, ifup of the loopback(lo)
interface. After down-up, routes of other interface's IPv6 addresses through
'lo' are lost.
IPv6 addresses assigned to all interfaces are routed through 'lo' for internal
communication. Once 'lo' is down, those routing entries are removed from routing
table. But those removed entries are not being re-created properly when 'lo' is
brought up. So IPv6 addresses of other interfaces becomes unreachable from the
same machine. Also this breaks communication with other machines because of
NDISC packet processing failure.
This patch fixes this issue by reading all interface's IPv6 addresses and adding
them to IPv6 routing table while bringing up 'lo'.
==Testing==
Before applying the patch:
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
2000::20/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
$ sudo ifdown lo
$ sudo ifup lo
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
$
After applying the patch:
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing
table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
2000::20/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
$ sudo ifdown lo
$ sudo ifup lo
$ route -A inet6
Kernel IPv6 routing table
Destination Next Hop Flag Met Ref Use If
2000::20/128 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
fe80::/64 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
::1/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
2000::20/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
fe80::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/128 :: Un 0 1 0 lo
ff00::/8 :: U 256 0 0 eth0
::/0 :: !n -1 1 1 lo
$
Signed-off-by: Balakumaran Kannan <Balakumaran.Kannan at ap.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Maruthi Thotad <Maruthi.Thotad at ap.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index 00188b3..2078f4e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2402,6 +2402,9 @@ static void sit_add_v4_addrs(struct inet6_dev *idev)
static void init_loopback(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct inet6_dev *idev;
+ struct net_device *sp_dev;
+ struct inet6_ifaddr *sp_ifa;
+ struct rt6_info *sp_rt;
/* ::1 */
@@ -2413,6 +2416,30 @@ static void init_loopback(struct net_device *dev)
}
add_addr(idev, &in6addr_loopback, 128, IFA_HOST);
+
+ /* Add routes to other interface's IPv6 addresses */
+ for_each_netdev(dev_net(dev), sp_dev) {
+ if (!strcmp(sp_dev->name, dev->name))
+ continue;
+
+ idev = __in6_dev_get(sp_dev);
+ if (!idev)
+ continue;
+
+ read_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
+ list_for_each_entry(sp_ifa, &idev->addr_list, if_list) {
+
+ if (sp_ifa->flags & (IFA_F_DADFAILED | IFA_F_TENTATIVE))
+ continue;
+
+ sp_rt = addrconf_dst_alloc(idev, &sp_ifa->addr, 0);
+
+ /* Failure cases are ignored */
+ if (!IS_ERR(sp_rt))
+ ip6_ins_rt(sp_rt);
+ }
+ read_unlock_bh(&idev->lock);
+ }
}
static void addrconf_add_linklocal(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr)
--
1.8.1.2
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