6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com
[ Upstream commit cfe82469a00f0c0983bf4652de3a2972637dfc56 ]
Commit 5eb902b8e719 ("net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.") introduced a separated list for managing route expiration via the GC timer.
However, it missed adding exception routes (created by ip6_rt_update_pmtu() and rt6_do_redirect()) to this GC list. As a result, these exceptions were never considered for expiration and removal, leading to stale entries persisting in the routing table.
This patch fixes the issue by calling fib6_add_gc_list() in rt6_insert_exception(), ensuring that exception routes are properly tracked and garbage collected when expired.
Fixes: 5eb902b8e719 ("net/ipv6: Remove expired routes with a separated list of routes.") Reported-by: Jianlin Shi jishi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Xin Long lucien.xin@gmail.com Reviewed-by: David Ahern dsahern@kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/837e7506ffb63f47faa2b05d9b85481aad28e1a4.1744134377... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/ipv6/route.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c index bae8ece3e881e..d9ab070e78e05 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/route.c +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c @@ -1771,6 +1771,7 @@ static int rt6_insert_exception(struct rt6_info *nrt, if (!err) { spin_lock_bh(&f6i->fib6_table->tb6_lock); fib6_update_sernum(net, f6i); + fib6_add_gc_list(f6i); spin_unlock_bh(&f6i->fib6_table->tb6_lock); fib6_force_start_gc(net); }