Patch "ipv6: avoid unregistering inet6_dev for loopback" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ipv6: avoid unregistering inet6_dev for loopback

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     ipv6-avoid-unregistering-inet6_dev-for-loopback.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 60abc0be96e00ca71bac083215ac91ad2e575096 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 14:34:58 -0700
Subject: ipv6: avoid unregistering inet6_dev for loopback

From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

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@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -3316,6 +3316,7 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifi
 	struct net_device *dev = netdev_notifier_info_to_dev(ptr);
 	struct netdev_notifier_changeupper_info *info;
 	struct inet6_dev *idev = __in6_dev_get(dev);
+	struct net *net = dev_net(dev);
 	int run_pending = 0;
 	int err;
 
@@ -3331,7 +3332,7 @@ static int addrconf_notify(struct notifi
 	case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
 		/* if MTU under 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;
 		}
 
@@ -3447,7 +3448,7 @@ 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;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com are

queue-4.9/ipv6-avoid-unregistering-inet6_dev-for-loopback.patch
queue-4.9/tcp-reset-sk_rx_dst-in-tcp_disconnect.patch