netdev - Re: [net PATCH 0/2] ipv4: Fix memory leaks and reference issues in fib

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Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 13:25:10 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net PATCH 0/2] ipv4: Fix memory leaks and reference issues in
 fib

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 05:46:01 -0500

> This series fixes one major issue and one minor issue in the fib tables.
> 
> The major issue is that we had lost the functionality that was flushing the
> local table entries from main after we had unmerged the two tries.  In
> order to regain the functionality I have performed a partial revert and
> then moved the functionality for flushing the external entries from main
> into fib_unmerge.
> 
> The minor issue was a memory leak that could occur in the event that we
> weren't able to add an alias to the local trie resulting in the fib alias
> being leaked.

Series applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Alexander.