From: huaibin Wang <huaibin.wang@xxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit d4257295ba1b389c693b79de857a96e4b7cd8ac0 ] When a tunnel is deleted, the cached dst entry should be released. This problem may prevent the removal of a netns (seen with a x-netns IPv6 gre tunnel): unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 3 CC: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@xxxxxxx> Fixes: c12b395a4664 ("gre: Support GRE over IPv6") Signed-off-by: huaibin Wang <huaibin.wang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c index 0e32d2e..28d7a24 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ static void ip6gre_tunnel_uninit(struct net_device *dev) struct ip6_tnl *t = netdev_priv(dev); struct ip6gre_net *ign = net_generic(t->net, ip6gre_net_id); - ip6gre_tunnel_unlink(ign, t); + ip6_tnl_dst_reset(netdev_priv(dev)); dev_put(dev); } -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html