This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipv6 mcast: use in6_dev_put in timer handlers instead of __in6_dev_put
to the 3.0-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:
ipv6-mcast-use-in6_dev_put-in-timer-handlers-instead-of-__in6_dev_put.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 9eb88baaea39257fbefe05ecdbba3b69fc92f12c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:41:34 -0700
Subject: ipv6 mcast: use in6_dev_put in timer handlers instead of __in6_dev_put
From: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 9260d3e1013701aa814d10c8fc6a9f92bd17d643 ]
It is possible for the timer handlers to run after the call to
ipv6_mc_down so use in6_dev_put instead of __in6_dev_put in the
handler function in order to do proper cleanup when the refcnt
reaches 0. Otherwise, the refcnt can reach zero without the
inet6_dev being destroyed and we end up leaking a reference to
the net_device and see messages like the following,
unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
Tested on linux-3.4.43.
Signed-off-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ipv6/mcast.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
@@ -2159,7 +2159,7 @@ static void mld_gq_timer_expire(unsigned
idev->mc_gq_running = 0;
mld_send_report(idev, NULL);
- __in6_dev_put(idev);
+ in6_dev_put(idev);
}
static void mld_ifc_timer_expire(unsigned long data)
@@ -2172,7 +2172,7 @@ static void mld_ifc_timer_expire(unsigne
if (idev->mc_ifc_count)
mld_ifc_start_timer(idev, idev->mc_maxdelay);
}
- __in6_dev_put(idev);
+ in6_dev_put(idev);
}
static void mld_ifc_event(struct inet6_dev *idev)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from noureddine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.0/ipv6-mcast-use-in6_dev_put-in-timer-handlers-instead-of-__in6_dev_put.patch
queue-3.0/ipv4-igmp-use-in_dev_put-in-timer-handlers-instead-of-__in_dev_put.patch
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