ipv6: reallocate addrconf router for ipv6 address when lo device up

It fix the bug 67951 on bugzilla
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67951

The patch can't be applied directly, as it' used the function introduced
by "commit 94e187c0" ip6_rt_put(), that patch can't be applied directly
either.

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From: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>

commit 33d99113b1102c2d2f8603b9ba72d89d915c13f5 upstream.

This commit don't have a stable tag, but it fix the bug
no reply after loopback down-up.It's very worthy to be
applied to stable 3.4 kernels.

The bug is 67951 on bugzilla
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67951

CC: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
CC: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Reported-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Weilong Chen <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[weilong: s/ip6_rt_put/dst_release]
Signed-off-by: Chen Weilong <chenweilong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
index b9edff0..3afdd78 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -2443,8 +2443,18 @@ static void init_loopback(struct net_device *dev)
                        if (sp_ifa->flags & (IFA_F_DADFAILED | IFA_F_TENTATIVE))
                                continue;
 
                        if (sp_ifa->flags & (IFA_F_DADFAILED | IFA_F_TENTATIVE))
                                continue;
 

-                       if (sp_ifa->rt)
-                               continue;
+                       if (sp_ifa->rt) {
+                               /* This dst has been added to garbage list when
+                                * lo device down, release this obsolete dst and
+                                * reallocate a new router for ifa.
+                                */
+                               if (sp_ifa->rt->dst.obsolete > 0) {
+                                       dst_release(&sp_ifa->rt->dst);
+                                       sp_ifa->rt = NULL;
+                               } else {
+                                       continue;
+                               }
+                       }

 
                        sp_rt = addrconf_dst_alloc(idev, &sp_ifa->addr, 0);
 
 
                        sp_rt = addrconf_dst_alloc(idev, &sp_ifa->addr, 0);