From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: lrichard@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] vxlan: eliminate cached dst leak
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 14:46:48 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170601.144648.1946518537495893731.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170529172557.7065-1-lrichard@redhat.com>
From: Lance Richardson <lrichard@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:25:57 -0400
> After commit 0c1d70af924b ("net: use dst_cache for vxlan device"),
> cached dst entries could be leaked when more than one remote was
> present for a given vxlan_fdb entry, causing subsequent netns
> operations to block indefinitely and "unregister_netdevice: waiting
> for lo to become free." messages to appear in the kernel log.
>
> Fix by properly releasing cached dst and freeing resources in this
> case.
>
> Fixes: commit 0c1d70af924b ("net: use dst_cache for vxlan device")
In the future please do not put that "commit " string there, it's not
needed.
> Signed-off-by: Lance Richardson <lrichard@redhat.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thank you.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-01 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-29 17:25 [PATCH net] vxlan: eliminate cached dst leak Lance Richardson
2017-05-30 8:34 ` Paolo Abeni
2017-05-31 15:48 ` Lance Richardson
2017-06-01 18:46 ` David Miller [this message]
2017-06-01 19:07 ` Lance Richardson
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