Patch "ipv6: only call ip6_route_dev_notify() once for NETDEV_UNREGISTER" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    ipv6: only call ip6_route_dev_notify() once for NETDEV_UNREGISTER

to the 3.18-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-only-call-ip6_route_dev_notify-once-for-netdev_unregister.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 76da0704507bbc51875013f6557877ab308cfd0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 11:42:27 -0700
Subject: ipv6: only call ip6_route_dev_notify() once for NETDEV_UNREGISTER

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

commit 76da0704507bbc51875013f6557877ab308cfd0a upstream.

In commit 242d3a49a2a1 ("ipv6: reorder ip6_route_dev_notifier after ipv6_dev_notf")
I assumed NETDEV_REGISTER and NETDEV_UNREGISTER are paired,
unfortunately, as reported by jeffy, netdev_wait_allrefs()
could rebroadcast NETDEV_UNREGISTER event until all refs are
gone.

We have to add an additional check to avoid this corner case.
For netdev_wait_allrefs() dev->reg_state is NETREG_UNREGISTERED,
for dev_change_net_namespace(), dev->reg_state is
NETREG_REGISTERED. So check for dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED.

Fixes: 242d3a49a2a1 ("ipv6: reorder ip6_route_dev_notifier after ipv6_dev_notf")
Reported-by: jeffy <jeffy.chen@rock-chips.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 net/ipv6/route.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -2827,7 +2827,11 @@ static int ip6_route_dev_notify(struct n
 		net->ipv6.ip6_blk_hole_entry->dst.dev = dev;
 		net->ipv6.ip6_blk_hole_entry->rt6i_idev = in6_dev_get(dev);
 #endif
-	 } else if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER) {
+	 } else if (event == NETDEV_UNREGISTER &&
+		    dev->reg_state != NETREG_UNREGISTERED) {
+		/* NETDEV_UNREGISTER could be fired for multiple times by
+		 * netdev_wait_allrefs(). Make sure we only call this once.
+		 */
 		in6_dev_put(net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry->rt6i_idev);
 #ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES
 		in6_dev_put(net->ipv6.ip6_prohibit_entry->rt6i_idev);


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

queue-3.18/ipv6-only-call-ip6_route_dev_notify-once-for-netdev_unregister.patch