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authorMarkus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@iki.fi>2015-05-05 13:36:59 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-05-09 22:58:41 +0300
commite16e888b525503be05b3aea64190e8b3bdef44d0 (patch)
tree7894cd9304ab18668c2d003bfa3e8c8c3a31e41f /net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
parent0a801445db4cb00bc900fd89b1e5eb7d7b581d7e (diff)
downloadlinux-e16e888b525503be05b3aea64190e8b3bdef44d0.tar.xz
ipv6: Fixed source specific default route handling.
If there are only IPv6 source specific default routes present, the host gets -ENETUNREACH on e.g. connect() because ip6_dst_lookup_tail calls ip6_route_output first, and given source address any, it fails, and ip6_route_get_saddr is never called. The change is to use the ip6_route_get_saddr, even if the initial ip6_route_output fails, and then doing ip6_route_output _again_ after we have appropriate source address available. Note that this is '99% fix' to the problem; a correct fix would be to do route lookups only within addrconf.c when picking a source address, and never call ip6_route_output before source address has been populated. Signed-off-by: Markus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/ip6_output.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/ip6_output.c39
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index 7fde1f265c90..c21777565c58 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -886,22 +886,45 @@ static int ip6_dst_lookup_tail(struct sock *sk,
#endif
int err;
- if (!*dst)
- *dst = ip6_route_output(net, sk, fl6);
-
- err = (*dst)->error;
- if (err)
- goto out_err_release;
+ /* The correct way to handle this would be to do
+ * ip6_route_get_saddr, and then ip6_route_output; however,
+ * the route-specific preferred source forces the
+ * ip6_route_output call _before_ ip6_route_get_saddr.
+ *
+ * In source specific routing (no src=any default route),
+ * ip6_route_output will fail given src=any saddr, though, so
+ * that's why we try it again later.
+ */
+ if (ipv6_addr_any(&fl6->saddr) && (!*dst || !(*dst)->error)) {
+ struct rt6_info *rt;
+ bool had_dst = *dst != NULL;
- if (ipv6_addr_any(&fl6->saddr)) {
- struct rt6_info *rt = (struct rt6_info *) *dst;
+ if (!had_dst)
+ *dst = ip6_route_output(net, sk, fl6);
+ rt = (*dst)->error ? NULL : (struct rt6_info *)*dst;
err = ip6_route_get_saddr(net, rt, &fl6->daddr,
sk ? inet6_sk(sk)->srcprefs : 0,
&fl6->saddr);
if (err)
goto out_err_release;
+
+ /* If we had an erroneous initial result, pretend it
+ * never existed and let the SA-enabled version take
+ * over.
+ */
+ if (!had_dst && (*dst)->error) {
+ dst_release(*dst);
+ *dst = NULL;
+ }
}
+ if (!*dst)
+ *dst = ip6_route_output(net, sk, fl6);
+
+ err = (*dst)->error;
+ if (err)
+ goto out_err_release;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_IPV6_OPTIMISTIC_DAD
/*
* Here if the dst entry we've looked up