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authorDavid Ahern2016-04-07 20:10:06 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller2016-04-11 21:56:20 +0200
commit9ab179d83b4e31ea277a123492e419067c2f129a (patch)
treed56d2138f40f62e348dd7ac0c0b6a70b4a3b9207 /net/ipv6/route.c
parentMerge branch 'tipc-fixes' (diff)
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net: vrf: Fix dst reference counting
Vivek reported a kernel exception deleting a VRF with an active connection through it. The root cause is that the socket has a cached reference to a dst that is destroyed. Converting the dst_destroy to dst_release and letting proper reference counting kick in does not work as the dst has a reference to the device which needs to be released as well. I talked to Hannes about this at netdev and he pointed out the ipv4 and ipv6 dst handling has dst_ifdown for just this scenario. Rather than continuing with the reinvented dst wheel in VRF just remove it and leverage the ipv4 and ipv6 versions. Fixes: 193125dbd8eb2 ("net: Introduce VRF device driver") Fixes: 35402e3136634 ("net: Add IPv6 support to VRF device") Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/route.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/route.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index ed446639219c..1d8871a5ed20 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -338,9 +338,9 @@ static struct rt6_info *__ip6_dst_alloc(struct net *net,
return rt;
}
-static struct rt6_info *ip6_dst_alloc(struct net *net,
- struct net_device *dev,
- int flags)
+struct rt6_info *ip6_dst_alloc(struct net *net,
+ struct net_device *dev,
+ int flags)
{
struct rt6_info *rt = __ip6_dst_alloc(net, dev, flags);
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ static struct rt6_info *ip6_dst_alloc(struct net *net,
return rt;
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(ip6_dst_alloc);
static void ip6_dst_destroy(struct dst_entry *dst)
{