netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ip6mr: fix notification device destruction

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Message-Id: <20170421.153635.1878323052363882645.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:36:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        dvyukov@...gle.com, kcc@...gle.com, syzkaller@...glegroups.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ip6mr: fix notification device destruction

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:30:42 +0300

> On 21/04/17 20:42, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
>> Andrey Konovalov reported a BUG caused by the ip6mr code which is caused
>> because we call unregister_netdevice_many for a device that is already
>> being destroyed. In IPv4's ipmr that has been resolved by two commits
>> long time ago by introducing the "notify" parameter to the delete
>> function and avoiding the unregister when called from a notifier, so
>> let's do the same for ip6mr.
 ...
> +CC LKML and Linus

Applied, thanks Nikolay and thanks Andrey for the report and testing.

Nikolay, how far does this bug go back?