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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: den@openvz.org
Cc: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net,
	containers@lists.osdl.org, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com,
	benjamin.thery@bull.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] [IPV6]: Event type in addrconf_ifdown is mis-used.
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:17:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080323.031724.208377895.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206259996.7528.12.camel@iris.sw.ru>

From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:13:16 +0300

> First, this behaviour is broken for a namespace right now in the 2.6.26
> tree. inet6_dev pointer will be NULL for a loopback inside the
> namespace. The case is simple. Just remove all INET6 addresses from a
> loopback device inside a VE. This will call
>   inet6_addr_del
>     addrconf_ifdown(dev, 1);
>        if (dev == init_net.loopback_dev && how == 1)
>                 how = 0;
> the condition will be false and how will not be changed here.

That's a bug.

You can't mark any namespace's loopback device's inet6_dev as NULL
until you know that all routes, devices, and packets referring to such
devices and routes in that namespace are %100 gone and unreferenced.

It is now obviously apparent that there are several severe errors
here.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-23 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-18 14:32 [PATCH 0/3] IPv6 start/stop problems Denis V. Lunev
     [not found] ` <1205850761.9163.21.camel-aPCOdVxUTlgvJsYlp49lxw@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-18 14:35   ` [PATCH 1/3] [IPV6]: Event type in addrconf_ifdown is mis-used Denis V. Lunev
2008-03-23  0:38     ` David Miller
2008-03-23  8:13       ` Denis V. Lunev
2008-03-23 10:17         ` David Miller [this message]
2008-03-23 14:34           ` Denis V. Lunev
2008-03-24  5:49             ` David Miller
2008-04-03 20:33             ` David Miller
2008-03-18 14:35   ` [PATCH 2/3] [IPV6]: inet6_dev on loopback should be kept until namespace stop Denis V. Lunev
2008-03-18 14:35   ` [PATCH 3/3] [IPV6]: Fix refcounting for anycast dst entries Denis V. Lunev
2008-03-31  8:38 ` [PATCH 0/3] IPv6 start/stop problems Denis V. Lunev
2008-03-31  8:41   ` David Miller

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