netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv6: fix a refcnt leak with peer addr

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Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2014 01:43:28 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv6: fix a refcnt leak with peer addr



On Wed, Sep 3, 2014, at 23:59, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> There is no reason to take a refcnt before deleting the peer address
> route.
> It's done some lines below for the local prefix route because
> inet6_ifa_finish_destroy() will release it at the end.
> For the peer address route, we want to free it right now.
> 
> This bug has been introduced by commit
> caeaba79009c ("ipv6: add support of peer address").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
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