netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix memory leak with multiple tables during netns destruction

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Date:   Fri, 08 Sep 2017 09:49:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sd@...asysnail.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: fix memory leak with multiple tables during
 netns destruction

From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Date: Fri,  8 Sep 2017 10:26:19 +0200

> fib6_net_exit only frees the main and local tables. If another table was
> created with fib6_alloc_table, we leak it when the netns is destroyed.
> 
> Fix this in the same way ip_fib_net_exit cleans up tables, by walking
> through the whole hashtable of fib6_table's. We can get rid of the
> special cases for local and main, since they're also part of the
> hashtable.
> 
> Reproducer:
>     ip netns add x
>     ip -net x -6 rule add from 6003:1::/64 table 100
>     ip netns del x
> 
> Reported-by: Jianlin Shi <jishi@...hat.com>
> Fixes: 58f09b78b730 ("[NETNS][IPV6] ip6_fib - make it per network namespace")
> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.