Re: sctp netns "unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1"

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2018-01-31 19:51 GMT+02:00 Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 31.01.2018 14:31, Neil Horman wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:42:24AM +0200, Tommi Rantala wrote:
>>>
>>> I think there's a problem in the dst refcounting in sctp_v4_get_dst()
>>>
>>> There's a dst_entry struct that has >0 refcnt after running the testcase,
>>> which makes it impossible to delete the loopback device, as that dst is
>>> never freed.
>>>
>>> I'll try to make a patch.
>>>
>> Are you looking at the second for loop there, which uses
>> ip_route_output_key,
>> but discards the result if dst is already set?  That does look a bit
>> wonky, and
>> the same problem may exist in the ipv6 path.  Let me know what the result
>> is.
>
>
> Yes, that was it. Did you receive the email I sent with the patch?
> (I'm not seeing that message e.g. at spinics.net linux-sctp archive, so just
> wondering if that email got lost somehow...)
>
> I'll check the ipv6 case, did not try it yet.
>
> Tommi

As far as I can tell, the ipv6 code does not suffer from this.
The dst handling there looks good to me.

Tommi
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