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Stefano Brivio 40cb35d5dc ip6_fib: Don't discard nodes with valid routing information in fib6_locate_1()
When we perform an inexact match on FIB nodes via fib6_locate_1(), longer
prefixes will be preferred to shorter ones. However, it might happen that
a node, with higher fn_bit value than some other, has no valid routing
information.

In this case, we'll pick that node, but it will be discarded by the check
on RTN_RTINFO in fib6_locate(), and we might miss nodes with valid routing
information but with lower fn_bit value.

This is apparent when a routing exception is created for a default route:
 # ip -6 route list
 fc00:1::/64 dev veth_A-R1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
 fc00:2::/64 dev veth_A-R2 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
 fc00:4::1 via fc00:2::2 dev veth_A-R2 metric 1024 pref medium
 fe80::/64 dev veth_A-R1 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
 fe80::/64 dev veth_A-R2 proto kernel metric 256 pref medium
 default via fc00:1::2 dev veth_A-R1 metric 1024 pref medium
 # ip -6 route list cache
 fc00:4::1 via fc00:2::2 dev veth_A-R2 metric 1024 expires 593sec mtu 1500 pref medium
 fc00:3::1 via fc00:1::2 dev veth_A-R1 metric 1024 expires 593sec mtu 1500 pref medium
 # ip -6 route flush cache    # node for default route is discarded
 Failed to send flush request: No such process
 # ip -6 route list cache
 fc00:3::1 via fc00:1::2 dev veth_A-R1 metric 1024 expires 586sec mtu 1500 pref medium

Check right away if the node has a RTN_RTINFO flag, before replacing the
'prev' pointer, that indicates the longest matching prefix found so far.

Fixes: 38fbeeeecc ("ipv6: prepare fib6_locate() for exception table")
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2019-06-24 10:18:49 -07:00
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batman-adv This feature/cleanup patchset includes the following patches: 2019-05-09 09:44:17 -07:00
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hsr hsr: fix don't prune the master node from the node_db 2019-05-23 09:29:44 -07:00
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ife treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
ipv4 ipv4: Dump route exceptions if requested 2019-06-24 10:18:48 -07:00
ipv6 ip6_fib: Don't discard nodes with valid routing information in fib6_locate_1() 2019-06-24 10:18:49 -07:00
iucv net/af_iucv: always register net_device notifier 2019-06-19 16:26:33 -04:00
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Kconfig net: ipv4: move tcp_fastopen server side code to SipHash library 2019-06-17 13:56:26 -07:00
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