On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 07:05:56PM +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 12:46:57PM +0200, Stefan Tomanek wrote:

quoted

 		if (err != -EAGAIN) {
+			if (ops->suppress && ops->suppress(rule, arg)) {
+				continue;
+			}

We need to make sure route lookup succeeded:

			if (!err && ops->suppress && ops->suppress(rule, arg))

quoted

+static int fib6_rule_suppress(struct fib_rule *rule, struct fib_lookup_arg *arg) {
+	struct rt6_info *rt = (struct rt6_info *) arg->result;
+	/*
+	 * do not accept result if the route does
+	 * not meet the required prefix length
+	 */
+	if (rt->rt6i_dst.plen < rule->table_prefixlen_min) {
+		return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}

Urks, fib6_rule_action is broken. The switch (rule->action) does update the rt
entry but does not signal the correct error code to stop iterating the rules
in case it finds a blackhole, prohibit etc. action (it always signals
-EAGAIN).

I have to take back that fib6_rule_action is broken, it just showes some
unwanted side effects in this constalation.

A change in this logic could have impact to your patch as I currently
don't know how the null handling of arg->result will turn out. IPv6 does not
preinitialize arg->result as IPv4 does.

I am looking for a solution.

This compile-only-tested patch would make the error reporting consistent
with its ipv4 counterpart. arg->result should only be NULL iff the
function returns -EAGAIN. So we are clean here.

(It seems this patch also fixes a potential nullptr dereference.)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c
index 2e1a432..4c8bac7 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c

@@ -55,26 +55,33 @@ static int fib6_rule_action(struct fib_rule *rule, struct flowi *flp,
 	struct fib6_table *table;
 	struct net *net = rule->fr_net;
 	pol_lookup_t lookup = arg->lookup_ptr;
+	int err = 0;
 
 	switch (rule->action) {
 	case FR_ACT_TO_TBL:
 		break;
 	case FR_ACT_UNREACHABLE:
+		err = -ENETUNREACH;
 		rt = net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry;
 		goto discard_pkt;
 	default:
 	case FR_ACT_BLACKHOLE:
+		err = -EINVAL;
 		rt = net->ipv6.ip6_blk_hole_entry;
 		goto discard_pkt;
 	case FR_ACT_PROHIBIT:
+		err = -EACCES;
 		rt = net->ipv6.ip6_prohibit_entry;
 		goto discard_pkt;
 	}
 
 	table = fib6_get_table(net, rule->table);
-	if (table)
-		rt = lookup(net, table, flp6, flags);
+	if (!table) {
+		err = -EAGAIN;
+		goto out;
+	}
 
+	rt = lookup(net, table, flp6, flags);
 	if (rt != net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry) {
 		struct fib6_rule *r = (struct fib6_rule *)rule;
 

@@ -101,6 +108,7 @@ static int fib6_rule_action(struct fib_rule *rule, struct flowi *flp,
 	}
 again:
 	ip6_rt_put(rt);
+	err = -EAGAIN;
 	rt = NULL;
 	goto out;
 

@@ -108,7 +116,7 @@ discard_pkt:
 	dst_hold(&rt->dst);
 out:
 	arg->result = rt;
-	return rt == NULL ? -EAGAIN : 0;
+	return err;
 }