On reflection, please put this on hold subject to testing with syzkaller. I
have not had a repro of the issue and so the fix even though harmless may not
be effective.
Thanks
Mike
On 02/05/17 19:30, Mike Manning wrote:
> While this is not reproducible manually, Andrey's syzkaller program hit
> the warning "IPv6: Freeing alive inet6 address" with this part trace:
>
> inet6_ifa_finish_destroy+0x12e/0x190 c:894
> in6_ifa_put ./include/net/addrconf.h:330
> addrconf_dad_work+0x4e9/0x1040 net/ipv6/addrconf.c:3963
>
> The fix is to call in6_ifa_put() for the inet6_ifaddr before rather
> than after calling addrconf_ifdown(), as the latter may remove it from
> the address hash table.
>
> Fixes: 85b51b12115c ("net: ipv6: Remove addresses for failures with strict
> DAD")
> Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyk...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmann...@brocade.com>
> ---
> net/ipv6/addrconf.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> index 80ce478..361993a 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
> @@ -3902,8 +3902,11 @@ static void addrconf_dad_work(struct work_struct *w)
> } else if (action == DAD_ABORT) {
> in6_ifa_hold(ifp);
> addrconf_dad_stop(ifp, 1);
> - if (disable_ipv6)
> + if (disable_ipv6) {
> + in6_ifa_put(ifp);
> addrconf_ifdown(idev->dev, 0);
> + goto unlock;
> + }
> goto out;
> }
>
> @@ -3950,6 +3953,7 @@ static void addrconf_dad_work(struct work_struct *w)
> ifp->dad_nonce);
> out:
> in6_ifa_put(ifp);
> +unlock:
> rtnl_unlock();
> }
>
>
