linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.2 112/149] ipv6 mcast: use in6_dev_put in timer handlers instead of __in6_dev

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Date:	Mon, 21 Oct 2013 09:46:28 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Salam Noureddine" <noureddine@...stanetworks.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.2 112/149] ipv6 mcast: use in6_dev_put in timer handlers
 instead  of __in6_dev_put

3.2.52-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@...stanetworks.com>

[ Upstream commit 9260d3e1013701aa814d10c8fc6a9f92bd17d643 ]

It is possible for the timer handlers to run after the call to
ipv6_mc_down so use in6_dev_put instead of __in6_dev_put in the
handler function in order to do proper cleanup when the refcnt
reaches 0. Otherwise, the refcnt can reach zero without the
inet6_dev being destroyed and we end up leaking a reference to
the net_device and see messages like the following,

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Tested on linux-3.4.43.

Signed-off-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@...stanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 net/ipv6/mcast.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
index c7ec4bb..d20a9be 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
@@ -2159,7 +2159,7 @@ static void mld_gq_timer_expire(unsigned long data)
 
 	idev->mc_gq_running = 0;
 	mld_send_report(idev, NULL);
-	__in6_dev_put(idev);
+	in6_dev_put(idev);
 }
 
 static void mld_ifc_timer_expire(unsigned long data)
@@ -2172,7 +2172,7 @@ static void mld_ifc_timer_expire(unsigned long data)
 		if (idev->mc_ifc_count)
 			mld_ifc_start_timer(idev, idev->mc_maxdelay);
 	}
-	__in6_dev_put(idev);
+	in6_dev_put(idev);
 }
 
 static void mld_ifc_event(struct inet6_dev *idev)

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