3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 @@ -2158,7 +2158,7 @@ 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) @@ -2171,7 +2171,7 @@ 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) -- 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