[PATCH 3.2 091/106] ipv6: avoid unregistering inet6_dev for loopback

[Ben Hutchings]

3.2.93-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 60abc0be96e00ca71bac083215ac91ad2e575096 upstream.

The per netns loopback_dev->ip6_ptr is unregistered and set to
NULL when its mtu is set to smaller than IPV6_MIN_MTU, this
leads to that we could set rt->rt6i_idev NULL after a
rt6_uncached_list_flush_dev() and then crash after another
call.

In this case we should just bring its inet6_dev down, rather
than unregistering it, at least prior to commit 176c39af29bc
("netns: fix addrconf_ifdown kernel panic") we always
override the case for loopback.

Thanks a lot to Andrey for finding a reliable reproducer.

Fixes: 176c39af29bc ("netns: fix addrconf_ifdown kernel panic")
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: the NETDEV_CHANGEMTU case used to fall-through to the
 NETDEV_DOWN case here, so replace that with a separate call to addrconf_ifdown()]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2633,6 +2633,7 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifi
 {
 	struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *) data;
 	struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
+	struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
 	int run_pending = 0;
 	int err;
 
@@ -2733,7 +2734,7 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifi
 			 * IPV6_MIN_MTU stop IPv6 on this interface.
 			 */
 			if (dev->mtu < IPV6_MIN_MTU)
-				addrconf_ifdown(dev, 1);
+				addrconf_ifdown(dev, dev != net->loopback_dev);
 		}
 		break;
 
@@ -2754,6 +2755,8 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifi
 		 * MTU falled under IPV6_MIN_MTU.
 		 * Stop IPv6 on this interface.
 		 */
+		addrconf_ifdown(dev, dev != net->loopback_dev);
+		break;
 
 	case NETDEV_DOWN:
 	case NETDEV_UNREGISTER: