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    net: ipv6: Fix refcnt on host routes · 799977d9
    David Ahern authored
    Andrew and Ying Huang's test robot both reported usage count problems that
    trace back to the 'keep address on ifdown' patch.
    
    >From Andrew:
    We execute CRIU test on linux-next. On the current linux-next kernel
    they hangs on creating a network namespace.
    
    The kernel log contains many massages like this:
    [ 1036.122108] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
    Usage count = 2
    [ 1046.165156] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
    Usage count = 2
    [ 1056.210287] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
    Usage count = 2
    
    I tried to revert this patch and the bug disappeared.
    
    Here is a set of commands to reproduce this bug:
    
    [root@linux-next-test linux-next]# uname -a
    Linux linux-next-test 4.5.0-rc6-next-20160301+ #3 SMP Wed Mar 2
    17:32:18 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
    
    [root@linux-next-test ~]# unshare -n
    [root@linux-next-test ~]# ip link set up dev lo
    [root@linux-next-test ~]# ip a
    1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
    group default qlen 1
        link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
        inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
        inet6 ::1/128 scope host
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    [root@linux-next-test ~]# logout
    [root@linux-next-test ~]# unshare -n
    
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    The problem is a change made to RTM_DELADDR case in __ipv6_ifa_notify that
    was added in an early version of the offending patch and is no longer
    needed.
    
    Fixes: f1705ec1 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional")
    Cc: Andrey Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarJeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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