From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: replacing a rt6_info needs to purge possible propagated rt6_infos too Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:02:09 -0800 Message-ID: <1422288129.29618.26.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com> References: <131075b1c8770c414675094c292d394316e8cd17.1422281427.git.hannes@stressinduktion.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkundrak@v3.sk To: Hannes Frederic Sowa Return-path: Received: from mail-pd0-f181.google.com ([209.85.192.181]:56534 "EHLO mail-pd0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755558AbbAZQCM (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:02:12 -0500 Received: by mail-pd0-f181.google.com with SMTP id g10so12577555pdj.12 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2015 08:02:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <131075b1c8770c414675094c292d394316e8cd17.1422281427.git.hannes@stressinduktion.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2015-01-26 at 15:11 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > Lubomir Rintel reported that during replacing a route the interface > reference counter isn't correctly decremented. > > To quote bug : > | [root@rhel7-5 lkundrak]# sh -x lal > | + ip link add dev0 type dummy > | + ip link set dev0 up > | + ip link add dev1 type dummy > | + ip link set dev1 up > | + ip addr add 2001:db8:8086::2/64 dev dev0 > | + ip route add 2001:db8:8086::/48 dev dev0 proto static metric 20 > | + ip route add 2001:db8:8088::/48 dev dev1 proto static metric 10 > | + ip route replace 2001:db8:8086::/48 dev dev1 proto static metric 20 > | + ip link del dev0 type dummy > | Message from syslogd@rhel7-5 at Jan 23 10:54:41 ... > | kernel:unregister_netdevice: waiting for dev0 to become free. Usage count = 2 > | > | Message from syslogd@rhel7-5 at Jan 23 10:54:51 ... > | kernel:unregister_netdevice: waiting for dev0 to become free. Usage count = 2 > > During replacement of a rt6_info we must walk all parent nodes and check > if the to be replaced rt6_info got propagated. If so, replace it with > an alive one. > > Reported-by: Lubomir Rintel > Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa Hi Hannes Was this bug added in commit 4a287eba2de395713d8b2b2aeaa69fa086832d34 ("IPv6 routing, NLM_F_* flag support: REPLACE and EXCL flags support, warn about missing CREATE flag") ? Thanks !