Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

["David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:24:07 +1100
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:

> This is the key to the problem.
 ...
> All of these bugs stem from the idev reference held in rtable/rt6_info.
 ...
> Anyway, this particular problem is due to IPv6 adding local addresses
> with split devices.  That is, routes to local addresses are added with
> rt6i_dev set to &loopback_dev and rt6i_idev set to the idev of the
> device where the address is added.
 ...
> It also goes against the Linux philosophy where the addresses are owned
> by the host, not the interface.
> 
> Therefore I propose the simple solution of not doing the split device
> accounting in rt6_info.

I agree with your analysis, however... this change is not sufficient.
You have to then walk over all the uses of rt6i_dev and sanitize the
cases that still expect the split semantics.  For example, things like
this piece of coe in rt6_device_match():

			if (dev->flags & IFF_LOOPBACK) {
				if (sprt->rt6i_idev == NULL ||
				    sprt->rt6i_idev->dev->ifindex != oif) {
					if (strict && oif)
						continue;
					if (local && (!oif || 
						      local->rt6i_idev->dev->ifindex == oif))
						continue;
				}
				local = sprt;
			}

It is just the first such thing I found, scanning rt6i_idev uses
will easily find several others.