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[IPV6]: ipv6_add_addr should install dstentry earlier
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ipv6_add_addr allocates a struct inet6_ifaddr and a dstentry, but it
doesn't install the dstentry in ifa->rt until after it releases the
addrconf_hash_lock. This means other CPUs will be able to see the new
address while it hasn't been initialized completely yet.

One possible fix would be to grab the ifp->lock spinlock when
creating the address struct; a simpler fix is to just move the
assignment.

Acked-by: jbeulich@novell.com
Acked-by: okir@suse.de
Acked-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Keir Fraser authored and David S. Miller committed Aug 30, 2006
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions net/ipv6/addrconf.c
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Expand Up @@ -578,6 +578,8 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr, int pfxlen,
ifa->flags = flags | IFA_F_TENTATIVE;
ifa->cstamp = ifa->tstamp = jiffies;

ifa->rt = rt;

ifa->idev = idev;
in6_dev_hold(idev);
/* For caller */
Expand All @@ -603,8 +605,6 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, const struct in6_addr *addr, int pfxlen,
}
#endif

ifa->rt = rt;

in6_ifa_hold(ifa);
write_unlock(&idev->lock);
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