net ipv6: Fix duplicate /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh directory entries.

When I was fixing issues with unregisgtering tables under /proc/sys/net/ipv6/neigh
by adding a mount point it appears I missed a critical ordering issue, in the
ipv6 initialization.  I had not realized that ipv6_sysctl_register is called
at the very end of the ipv6 initialization and in particular after we call
neigh_sysctl_register from ndisc_init.

"neigh" needs to be initialized in ipv6_static_sysctl_register which is
the first ipv6 table to initialized, and definitely before ndisc_init.
This removes the weirdness of duplicate tables while still providing a
"neigh" mount point which prevents races in sysctl unregistering.

This was initially reported at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31232
Reported-by: sunkan@zappa.cx
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

diff --git a/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
index 7cb65ef..6dcf5e7 100644 (file)
--- a/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/sysctl_net_ipv6.c
@@ -17,6 +17,16 @@
 
 static struct ctl_table empty[1];
 
+static ctl_table ipv6_static_skeleton[] = {
+       {
+               .procname       = "neigh",
+               .maxlen         = 0,
+               .mode           = 0555,
+               .child          = empty,
+       },
+       { }
+};
+
 static ctl_table ipv6_table_template[] = {
        {
                .procname       = "route",
@@ -37,12 +47,6 @@ static ctl_table ipv6_table_template[] = {
                .mode           = 0644,
                .proc_handler   = proc_dointvec
        },
-       {
-               .procname       = "neigh",
-               .maxlen         = 0,
-               .mode           = 0555,
-               .child          = empty,
-       },
        { }
 };
 
@@ -160,7 +164,7 @@ static struct ctl_table_header *ip6_base;
 
 int ipv6_static_sysctl_register(void)
 {
-       ip6_base = register_sysctl_paths(net_ipv6_ctl_path, empty);
+       ip6_base = register_sysctl_paths(net_ipv6_ctl_path, ipv6_static_skeleton);
        if (ip6_base == NULL)
                return -ENOMEM;
        return 0;