netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: replacing a rt6_info needs to purge possible propagated rt6

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:23:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, lkundrak@...sk
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: replacing a rt6_info needs to purge possible
 propagated rt6_infos too

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:11:17 +0100

> Lubomir Rintel reported that during replacing a route the interface
> reference counter isn't correctly decremented.
 ...
> During replacement of a rt6_info we must walk all parent nodes and check
> if the to be replaced rt6_info got propagated. If so, replace it with
> an alive one.
> 
> Reported-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@...sk>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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