Patch "ipv4: initialize fib_trie prior to register_netdev_notifier call." has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ipv4: initialize fib_trie prior to register_netdev_notifier call.

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ipv4-initialize-fib_trie-prior-to-register_netdev_notifier-call.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Mahesh Bandewar <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 15:41:33 -0700
Subject: ipv4: initialize fib_trie prior to register_netdev_notifier call.

From: Mahesh Bandewar <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 8799a221f5944a7d74516ecf46d58c28ec1d1f75 ]

Net stack initialization currently initializes fib-trie after the first call to netdevice_notifier() call. In fact fib_trie initialization needs to happen before first rtnl_register(). It does not cause any problem since there are no devices UP at this moment, but trying to bring 'lo' UP at initialization would make this assumption wrong and exposes the issue.

Fixes following crash

 Call Trace:
  ? alternate_node_alloc+0x76/0xa0
  fib_table_insert+0x1b7/0x4b0
  fib_magic.isra.17+0xea/0x120
  fib_add_ifaddr+0x7b/0x190
  fib_netdev_event+0xc0/0x130
  register_netdevice_notifier+0x1c1/0x1d0
  ip_fib_init+0x72/0x85
  ip_rt_init+0x187/0x1e9
  ip_init+0xe/0x1a
  inet_init+0x171/0x26c
  ? ipv4_offload_init+0x66/0x66
  do_one_initcall+0x43/0x160
  kernel_init_freeable+0x191/0x219
  ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
  kernel_init+0xe/0x150
  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
 Code: f6 46 23 04 74 86 4c 89 f7 e8 ae 45 01 00 49 89 c7 4d 85 ff 0f 85 7b ff ff ff 31 db eb 08 4c 89 ff e8 16 47 01 00 48 8b 44 24 38 <45> 8b 6e 14 4d 63 76 74 48 89 04 24 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 83 c4 08
 RIP: kmem_cache_alloc+0xcf/0x1c0 RSP: ffff9b1500017c28
 CR2: 0000000000000014

---
 net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c |    9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -1327,13 +1327,14 @@ static struct pernet_operations fib_net_
 
 void __init ip_fib_init(void)
 {
-	rtnl_register(PF_INET, RTM_NEWROUTE, inet_rtm_newroute, NULL, NULL);
-	rtnl_register(PF_INET, RTM_DELROUTE, inet_rtm_delroute, NULL, NULL);
-	rtnl_register(PF_INET, RTM_GETROUTE, NULL, inet_dump_fib, NULL);
+	fib_trie_init();
 
 	register_pernet_subsys(&fib_net_ops);
+
 	register_netdevice_notifier(&fib_netdev_notifier);
 	register_inetaddr_notifier(&fib_inetaddr_notifier);
 
-	fib_trie_init();
+	rtnl_register(PF_INET, RTM_NEWROUTE, inet_rtm_newroute, NULL, NULL);
+	rtnl_register(PF_INET, RTM_DELROUTE, inet_rtm_delroute, NULL, NULL);
+	rtnl_register(PF_INET, RTM_GETROUTE, NULL, inet_dump_fib, NULL);
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.12/bonding-commit-link-status-change-after-propose.patch queue-4.12/ipv4-initialize-fib_trie-prior-to-register_netdev_notifier-call.patch