When IPv6 address is set without IPv6 configured, the vxlan socket is mostly treated as an IPv4 one but various lookus in fdb etc. still take the AF_INET6 into account. This creates incosistencies with weird consequences.
Just reject IPv6 addresses in such case. Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com> --- drivers/net/vxlan.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c index 6ebe562af04e..bbac1d35ed4e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c +++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c @@ -2636,8 +2636,11 @@ static int vxlan_dev_configure(struct net *src_net, struct net_device *dev, dst->remote_ip.sa.sa_family = AF_INET; if (dst->remote_ip.sa.sa_family == AF_INET6 || - vxlan->cfg.saddr.sa.sa_family == AF_INET6) + vxlan->cfg.saddr.sa.sa_family == AF_INET6) { + if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)) + return -EPFNOSUPPORT; use_ipv6 = true; + } if (conf->remote_ifindex) { struct net_device *lowerdev -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html