[PATCH 5.0 007/146] ipv6: make ip6_create_rt_rcu return ip6_null_entry instead of NULL

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

5.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 1c87e79a002f6a159396138cd3f3ab554a2a8887 ]

Jianlin reported a crash:

  [  381.484332] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000068
  [  381.619802] RIP: 0010:fib6_rule_lookup+0xa3/0x160
  [  382.009615] Call Trace:
  [  382.020762]  <IRQ>
  [  382.030174]  ip6_route_redirect.isra.52+0xc9/0xf0
  [  382.050984]  ip6_redirect+0xb6/0xf0
  [  382.066731]  icmpv6_notify+0xca/0x190
  [  382.083185]  ndisc_redirect_rcv+0x10f/0x160
  [  382.102569]  ndisc_rcv+0xfb/0x100
  [  382.117725]  icmpv6_rcv+0x3f2/0x520
  [  382.133637]  ip6_input_finish+0xbf/0x460
  [  382.151634]  ip6_input+0x3b/0xb0
  [  382.166097]  ipv6_rcv+0x378/0x4e0

It was caused by the lookup function __ip6_route_redirect() returns NULL in
fib6_rule_lookup() when ip6_create_rt_rcu() returns NULL.

So we fix it by simply making ip6_create_rt_rcu() return ip6_null_entry
instead of NULL.

v1->v2:
  - move down 'fallback:' to make it more readable.

Fixes: e873e4b9cc7e ("ipv6: use fib6_info_hold_safe() when necessary")
Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/ipv6/route.c |   18 ++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -1040,14 +1040,20 @@ static struct rt6_info *ip6_create_rt_rc
 	struct rt6_info *nrt;
 
 	if (!fib6_info_hold_safe(rt))
-		return NULL;
+		goto fallback;
 
 	nrt = ip6_dst_alloc(dev_net(dev), dev, flags);
-	if (nrt)
-		ip6_rt_copy_init(nrt, rt);
-	else
+	if (!nrt) {
 		fib6_info_release(rt);
+		goto fallback;
+	}
+
+	ip6_rt_copy_init(nrt, rt);
+	return nrt;
 
+fallback:
+	nrt = dev_net(dev)->ipv6.ip6_null_entry;
+	dst_hold(&nrt->dst);
 	return nrt;
 }
 
@@ -1096,10 +1102,6 @@ restart:
 		dst_hold(&rt->dst);
 	} else {
 		rt = ip6_create_rt_rcu(f6i);
-		if (!rt) {
-			rt = net->ipv6.ip6_null_entry;
-			dst_hold(&rt->dst);
-		}
 	}
 
 	rcu_read_unlock();