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[1/1] ipv6 addrlabel: permit deletion of labels assigned to removed dev

Message ID 1273267893-22485-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Florian Westphal May 7, 2010, 9:31 p.m. UTC
as addrlabels with an interface index are left alone when the
interface gets removed this results in addrlabels that can no
longer be removed.

Restrict validation of index to adding new addrlabels.

Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
 net/ipv6/addrlabel.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

David Miller May 18, 2010, 12:08 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Fri,  7 May 2010 23:31:33 +0200

> as addrlabels with an interface index are left alone when the
> interface gets removed this results in addrlabels that can no
> longer be removed.
> 
> Restrict validation of index to adding new addrlabels.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

Applied, thanks Florian.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c b/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
index 6ff73c4..8342296 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrlabel.c
@@ -421,10 +421,6 @@  static int ip6addrlbl_newdel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 	    ifal->ifal_prefixlen > 128)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (ifal->ifal_index &&
-	    !__dev_get_by_index(net, ifal->ifal_index))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	if (!tb[IFAL_ADDRESS])
 		return -EINVAL;
 
@@ -440,6 +436,10 @@  static int ip6addrlbl_newdel(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
 
 	switch(nlh->nlmsg_type) {
 	case RTM_NEWADDRLABEL:
+		if (ifal->ifal_index &&
+		    !__dev_get_by_index(net, ifal->ifal_index))
+			return -EINVAL;
+
 		err = ip6addrlbl_add(net, pfx, ifal->ifal_prefixlen,
 				     ifal->ifal_index, label,
 				     nlh->nlmsg_flags & NLM_F_REPLACE);