[PATCH 4.9 23/88] ipv6: Fix nlmsg_flags when splitting a multipath route

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-03-10T12:44:45Z

From: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@cumulusnetworks.com>

[ Upstream commit afecdb376bd81d7e16578f0cfe82a1aec7ae18f3 ]

When splitting an RTA_MULTIPATH request into multiple routes and adding the
second and later components, we must not simply remove NLM_F_REPLACE but
instead replace it by NLM_F_CREATE. Otherwise, it may look like the netlink
message was malformed.

For example,
ip route add 2001:db8::1/128 dev dummy0
ip route change 2001:db8::1/128 nexthop via fe80::30:1 dev dummy0 \
nexthop via fe80::30:2 dev dummy0
results in the following warnings:
[ 1035.057019] IPv6: RTM_NEWROUTE with no NLM_F_CREATE or NLM_F_REPLACE
[ 1035.057517] IPv6: NLM_F_CREATE should be set when creating new route

This patch makes the nlmsg sequence look equivalent for __ip6_ins_rt() to
what it would get if the multipath route had been added in multiple netlink
operations:
ip route add 2001:db8::1/128 dev dummy0
ip route change 2001:db8::1/128 nexthop via fe80::30:1 dev dummy0
ip route append 2001:db8::1/128 nexthop via fe80::30:2 dev dummy0

Fixes: 27596472473a ("ipv6: fix ECMP route replacement")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@cumulusnetworks.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -3069,6 +3069,7 @@ static int ip6_route_multipath_add(struc
*/
cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh->nlmsg_flags &= ~(NLM_F_EXCL |
NLM_F_REPLACE);
+ cfg->fc_nlinfo.nlh->nlmsg_flags |= NLM_F_CREATE;
nhn++;
}