On 05.09.2016 10:06, Wei Yongjun wrote: > In general, when DAD detected IPv6 duplicate address, ifp->state > will be set to INET6_IFADDR_STATE_ERRDAD and DAD is stopped by a > delayed work, the call tree should be like this: > > ndisc_recv_ns > -> addrconf_dad_failure <- missing ifp put > -> addrconf_mod_dad_work > -> schedule addrconf_dad_work() > -> addrconf_dad_stop() <- missing ifp hold before call it > > addrconf_dad_failure() called with ifp refcont holding but not put. > addrconf_dad_work() call addrconf_dad_stop() without extra holding > refcount. This will not cause any issue normally. > > But the race between addrconf_dad_failure() and addrconf_dad_work() > may cause ifp refcount leak and netdevice can not be unregister, > dmesg show the following messages: > > IPv6: eth0: IPv6 duplicate address fe80::XX:XXXX:XXXX:XX detected! > ... > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1 > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fixes: c15b1ccadb32 ("ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing > to workqueue") > Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@xxxxxxxxxx> > > diff --git a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c > index bdf368e..2f1f5d4 100644 > --- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c > +++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c > @@ -1948,6 +1948,7 @@ errdad: > spin_unlock_bh(&ifp->lock); > > addrconf_mod_dad_work(ifp, 0); > + in6_ifa_put(ifp); > } This in6_ifa_put makes sense. > > /* Join to solicited addr multicast group. > @@ -3857,6 +3858,7 @@ static void addrconf_dad_work(struct work_struct *w) > addrconf_dad_begin(ifp); > goto out; > } else if (action == DAD_ABORT) { > + in6_ifa_hold(ifp); > addrconf_dad_stop(ifp, 1); > if (disable_ipv6) > addrconf_ifdown(idev->dev, 0); > But why you add a in6_ifa_hold here isn't clear to me. Could you explain why this is necessary? I don't see any async stuff being done in addrconf_dad_stop, thus the reference we already have should be sufficient for the lifetime of addrconf_dad_stop. Thanks, Hannes -- 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