Re: [PATCH net-next v3 1/2] net/ipv6: insert a f6i to a GC list only if the f6i is in a fib6_table tree.

[Kui-Feng Lee <sinquersw@gmail.com>]

On 12/13/23 22:11, David Ahern wrote:
> On 12/13/23 2:37 PM, thinker.li@gmail.com wrote:
>> diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
>> index b132feae3393..dcaeb88d73aa 100644
>> --- a/net/ipv6/route.c
>> +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
>> @@ -3763,10 +3763,10 @@ static struct fib6_info *ip6_route_info_create(struct fib6_config *cfg,
>>   		rt->dst_nocount = true;
>>   
>>   	if (cfg->fc_flags & RTF_EXPIRES)
>> -		fib6_set_expires_locked(rt, jiffies +
>> -					clock_t_to_jiffies(cfg->fc_expires));
>> +		__fib6_set_expires(rt, jiffies +
>> +				   clock_t_to_jiffies(cfg->fc_expires));
>>   	else
>> -		fib6_clean_expires_locked(rt);
>> +		__fib6_clean_expires(rt);
> 
> as Eric noted in a past comment, the clean is not needed in this
> function since memory is initialized to 0 (expires is never set).
> 
> Also, this patch set does not fundamentally change the logic, so it
> cannot fix the bug reported in
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231205173250.2982846-1-edumazet@google.com/
> 
> please hold off future versions of this set until the problem in that
> stack traced is fixed. I have tried a few things using RA's, but have
> not been able to recreate UAF.
Sure