Julien Grall <julien.grall@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The commit efb6de9b4ba0092b2c55f6a52d16294a8a698edd "netfilter: bridge: > forward IPv6 fragmented packets" introduced a new function > br_validate_ipv6 which take a reference on the inet6 device. Although, > the reference is not released at the end. > > This will result to the impossibility to destroy any netdevice using > ipv6 and bridge. > > Spotted while trying to destroy a Xen guest on the upstream Linux: > "unregister_netdevice: waiting for vif1.0 to become free. Usage count = 1" Ugh :-/ I think it makes more sense to use __in6_dev_get() instead which doesn't take a reference.
