This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv4: Restore fib_trie_flush_external function and fix call ordering to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ipv4-restore-fib_trie_flush_external-function-and-fix-call-ordering.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Dec 8 07:19:12 CET 2016 From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:46:06 -0500 Subject: ipv4: Restore fib_trie_flush_external function and fix call ordering From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3b7093346b326e5d3590c7d49f6aefe6fa5b2c9a, the FIB offload removal didn't occur in 4.8 so that part of this patch isn't here. However we still need to fib_unmerge() bits. ] The patch that removed the FIB offload infrastructure was a bit too aggressive and also removed code needed to clean up us splitting the table if additional rules were added. Specifically the function fib_trie_flush_external was called at the end of a new rule being added to flush the foreign trie entries from the main trie. I updated the code so that we only call fib_trie_flush_external on the main table so that we flush the entries for local from main. This way we don't call it for every rule change which is what was happening previously. Fixes: 347e3b28c1ba2 ("switchdev: remove FIB offload infrastructure") Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c +++ b/net/ipv4/fib_frontend.c @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static void fib_replace_table(struct net int fib_unmerge(struct net *net) { - struct fib_table *old, *new; + struct fib_table *old, *new, *main_table; /* attempt to fetch local table if it has been allocated */ old = fib_get_table(net, RT_TABLE_LOCAL); @@ -168,11 +168,21 @@ int fib_unmerge(struct net *net) if (!new) return -ENOMEM; + /* table is already unmerged */ + if (new == old) + return 0; + /* replace merged table with clean table */ - if (new != old) { - fib_replace_table(net, old, new); - fib_free_table(old); - } + fib_replace_table(net, old, new); + fib_free_table(old); + + /* attempt to fetch main table if it has been allocated */ + main_table = fib_get_table(net, RT_TABLE_MAIN); + if (!main_table) + return 0; + + /* flush local entries from main table */ + fib_table_flush_external(main_table); return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/ipv4-fix-memory-leak-in-exception-case-for-splitting-tries.patch queue-4.8/ipv4-restore-fib_trie_flush_external-function-and-fix-call-ordering.patch queue-4.8/gso-reload-iph-after-pskb_may_pull.patch queue-4.8/ipv4-drop-suffix-update-from-resize-code.patch queue-4.8/ipv4-drop-leaf-from-suffix-pull-push-functions.patch -- 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