ip6_tunnel: do not allow loading ip6_tunnel if ipv6 is disabled in cmdline
authorXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Fri, 15 Sep 2017 07:58:33 +0000 (15:58 +0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 18 Sep 2017 23:34:32 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
commit8c22dab03ad072e45060c299c70d02a4f6fc4aab
tree18086772744dd6992bbaad688af27c55c518a706
parentf2654a4781318dc7ab8d6cde66f1fa39eab980a9
ip6_tunnel: do not allow loading ip6_tunnel if ipv6 is disabled in cmdline

If ipv6 has been disabled from cmdline since kernel started, it makes
no sense to allow users to create any ip6 tunnel. Otherwise, it could
some potential problem.

Jianlin found a kernel crash caused by this in ip6_gre when he set
ipv6.disable=1 in grub:

[  209.588865] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000080
[  209.588872] Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000000a3aa6c
[  209.588879] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[  209.589062] NIP [c000000000a3aa6c] fib_rules_lookup+0x4c/0x260
[  209.589071] LR [c000000000b9ad90] fib6_rule_lookup+0x50/0xb0
[  209.589076] Call Trace:
[  209.589097] fib6_rule_lookup+0x50/0xb0
[  209.589106] rt6_lookup+0xc4/0x110
[  209.589116] ip6gre_tnl_link_config+0x214/0x2f0 [ip6_gre]
[  209.589125] ip6gre_newlink+0x138/0x3a0 [ip6_gre]
[  209.589134] rtnl_newlink+0x798/0xb80
[  209.589142] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xec/0x390
[  209.589151] netlink_rcv_skb+0x138/0x150
[  209.589159] rtnetlink_rcv+0x48/0x70
[  209.589169] netlink_unicast+0x538/0x640
[  209.589175] netlink_sendmsg+0x40c/0x480
[  209.589184] ___sys_sendmsg+0x384/0x4e0
[  209.589194] SyS_sendmsg+0xd4/0x140
[  209.589201] SyS_socketcall+0x3e0/0x4f0
[  209.589209] system_call+0x38/0xe0

This patch is to return -EOPNOTSUPP in ip6_tunnel_init if ipv6 has been
disabled from cmdline.

Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c