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From:   Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
To:     netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
        bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
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Cc:     Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>,
        Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
        Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/1] net: br_netfiler_hooks: Drops IPv6 packets if IPv6 module is not loaded
Date:   Sat, 31 Aug 2019 01:40:33 -0300
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A kernel panic can happen if a host has disabled IPv6 on boot and have to
process guest packets (coming from a bridge) using it's ip6tables.

IPv6 packets need to be dropped if the IPv6 module is not loaded, and the
host ip6tables will be used.

Signed-off-by: Leonardo Bras <leonardo@linux.ibm.com>
---
Changes from v4:
- Check if the host ip6tables is going to be used before testing 
  ipv6 module presence 
- Adds a warning about ipv6 module disabled.


 net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c
index d3f9592f4ff8..af7800103e51 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter_hooks.c
@@ -496,6 +496,10 @@ static unsigned int br_nf_pre_routing(void *priv,
 		if (!brnet->call_ip6tables &&
 		    !br_opt_get(br, BROPT_NF_CALL_IP6TABLES))
 			return NF_ACCEPT;
+		if (!ipv6_mod_enabled()) {
+			pr_warn_once("Module ipv6 is disabled, so call_ip6tables is not supported.");
+			return NF_DROP;
+		}
 
 		nf_bridge_pull_encap_header_rcsum(skb);
 		return br_nf_pre_routing_ipv6(priv, skb, state);
-- 
2.20.1