netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: tun: release the reference of tun device in tun

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Date:	Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:36:46 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
Cc:	Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Balakumaran Kannan <kumaran.4353@...il.com>,
	Maruthi Thotad <Maruthi.Thotad@...sony.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: tun: release the reference of tun device in
 tun_recvmsg

On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 17:20 +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> O
> Please push it into stable kernel (3.9) queue, too. Works well here.
> 

Its already in the queue :
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=*




> commit 534c877928a16ae5f9776436a497109639bf67dc
> Author: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
> Date:   Sun Jun 2 22:16:21 2013 +0000
> 
>     ipv6: assign rt6_info to inet6_ifaddr in init_loopback
>     
>     Commit 25fb6ca4ed9cad72f14f61629b68dc03c0d9713f
>     "net IPv6 : Fix broken IPv6 routing table after loopback down-up"
>     forgot to assign rt6_info to the inet6_ifaddr.
>     When disable the net device, the rt6_info which allocated
>     in init_loopback will not be destroied in __ipv6_ifa_notify.
>     
>     This will trigger the waring message below
>     [23527.916091] unregister_netdevice: waiting for tap0 to become free. 
> Usage count = 1
>     
>     Reported-by: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <a.miskiewicz@...il.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 


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