netdev - Re: [PATCH] Freeing alive inet6 address

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Date:	Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:08:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	den@...nvz.org
Cc:	adobriyan@...nvz.org, xemul@...nvz.org, dev@...nvz.org,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Freeing alive inet6 address

From: "Denis V. Lunev" <den@...nvz.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 14:21:18 +0400

> From: Denis V. Lunev <den@...nvz.org>
> 
> addrconf_dad_failure calls addrconf_dad_stop which takes referenced address
> and drops the count. So, in6_ifa_put perrformed at out: is extra. This
> results in message: "Freeing alive inet6 address" and not released dst entries.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den@...nvz.org>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>

I've seen this bug myself just a week before heading to
Europe for conferences and intended to look into it.

Thanks a lot for fixing this, patch applied.
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