netdev - Re: [PATCH] net_namespace: fixed net

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Date:   Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:12:47 -0700
From:   Jojy Varghese <jojy.varghese@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net_namespace: fixed net_device reference leak

Hi Eric/Lance

 Thanks for taking time to look at the patch. The problem in dst.c's
"dst_ifdown" is that it will never do an actual "dev_put" on the
loopback net device. This results in the loopback net device to be
alive even when the dst goes away.

Thanks
Jojy

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 14:00 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>
>> Latest real fix was :
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=751eb6b6042a596b0080967c1a529a9fe98dac1d
>
> Another interesting fix is
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=a5d0dc810abf3d6b241777467ee1d6efb02575fc
>
>
>



-- 
Jojy G Varghese