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

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Message-Id: <20140905.171347.1273847652821486122.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/2] ipv6: fix a refcnt leak with peer addr

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Wed,  3 Sep 2014 23:59:21 +0200

> 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>

Applied.
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