netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: don't call addrconf_dst

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Date:	Tue, 31 Dec 2013 04:57:18 +0100
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	gaofeng@...fujitsu.com, kumaran.4353@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, chenweilong@...wei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: don't call addrconf_dst_alloc again when enable lo

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:05:32PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
> Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:14:30 +0800
> 
> > If we disable all of the net interfaces, and enable
> > un-lo interface before lo interface, we already allocated
> > the addrconf dst in ipv6_add_addr. So we shouldn't allocate
> > it again when we enable lo interface.
> > 
> > Otherwise the message below will be triggered.
> > unregister_netdevice: waiting for sit1 to become free. Usage count = 1
> > 
> > This problem is introduced by commit 25fb6ca4ed9cad72f14f61629b68dc03c0d9713f
> > "net IPv6 : Fix broken IPv6 routing table after loopback down-up"
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gao feng <gaofeng@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> This is the second such regression added by that commit :-/
> 
> Applied and queue up for -stable, thanks.

Hmm, and this change also has a regression and breaks the original fix. :/

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67951

I tried to track it down but it seems pretty complicated. Maybe we have to
special-case the take-down of the loopback device.

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