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Breno Leitao 3bc179bc71 netpoll: fix IPv6 local-address corruption
netpoll_setup() decides whether to auto-populate the local source
address by testing np->local_ip.ip, which only inspects the first 4
bytes of the union inet_addr storage.

For an IPv6 netpoll whose caller-supplied local address has a zero
high-32 bits (::1, ::<suffix>, IPv4-mapped ::ffff:a.b.c.d, etc.), this
misdetects the address as unset (which they are not, but the first
4 bytes are empty), calls netpoll_take_ipv6() and overwrites it with
whatever matching link-local/global address the device happens to expose
first.

Introduce a helper netpoll_local_ip_unset() that picks the correct
family-aware test (ipv6_addr_any() for IPv6, !.ip for IPv4) and use it
from netpoll_setup().

Reproducer is something like:

  echo "::2" > local_ip
  echo 1     > enabled
  cat local_ip
  # before this fix: 2001:db8::1   (caller-supplied ::2 was clobbered)
  # after  this fix: ::2

Fixes: b7394d2429 ("netpoll: prepare for ipv6")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260424-netpoll_fix-v1-1-3a55348c625f@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2026-04-27 19:16:18 -07:00
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