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Commit 7343ff31 authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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ipv6: Don't create clones of host routes.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29252
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30462



In commit d80bc0fd ("ipv6: Always
clone offlink routes.") we forced the kernel to always clone offlink
routes.

The reason we do that is to make sure we never bind an inetpeer to a
prefixed route.

The logic turned on here has existed in the tree for many years,
but was always off due to a protecting CPP define.  So perhaps
it's no surprise that there is a logic bug here.

The problem is that we canot clone a route that is already a
host route (ie. has DST_HOST set).  Because if we do, an identical
entry already exists in the routing tree and therefore the
ip6_rt_ins() call is going to fail.

This sets off a series of failures and high cpu usage, because when
ip6_rt_ins() fails we loop retrying this operation a few times in
order to handle a race between two threads trying to clone and insert
the same host route at the same time.

Fix this by simply using the route as-is when DST_HOST is set.

Reported-by: default avatar <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Reported-by: default avatarErnst Sjöstrand <ernstp@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 03a14ab1
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