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authorWei Wang <weiwan@google.com>2017-08-14 10:44:59 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-08-14 22:18:48 -0700
commite5645f51ba99738b0e5d708edf9c6454f33b9310 (patch)
treee9910540098f3c7aa709c7fd84e5e5a435ad29e9 /net
parent36f41f8fc6d8aa9f8c9072d66ff7cf9055f5e69b (diff)
downloadlinux-e5645f51ba99738b0e5d708edf9c6454f33b9310.tar.bz2
ipv6: release rt6->rt6i_idev properly during ifdown
When a dst is created by addrconf_dst_alloc() for a host route or an anycast route, dst->dev points to loopback dev while rt6->rt6i_idev points to a real device. When the real device goes down, the current cleanup code only checks for dst->dev and assumes rt6->rt6i_idev->dev is the same. This causes the refcount leak on the real device in the above situation. This patch makes sure to always release the refcount taken on rt6->rt6i_idev during dst_dev_put(). Fixes: 587fea741134 ("ipv6: mark DST_NOGC and remove the operation of dst_free()") Reported-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Tested-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Tested-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/route.c13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index a640fbcba15d..99d4727f2b18 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -417,14 +417,11 @@ static void ip6_dst_ifdown(struct dst_entry *dst, struct net_device *dev,
struct net_device *loopback_dev =
dev_net(dev)->loopback_dev;
- if (dev != loopback_dev) {
- if (idev && idev->dev == dev) {
- struct inet6_dev *loopback_idev =
- in6_dev_get(loopback_dev);
- if (loopback_idev) {
- rt->rt6i_idev = loopback_idev;
- in6_dev_put(idev);
- }
+ if (idev && idev->dev != loopback_dev) {
+ struct inet6_dev *loopback_idev = in6_dev_get(loopback_dev);
+ if (loopback_idev) {
+ rt->rt6i_idev = loopback_idev;
+ in6_dev_put(idev);
}
}
}