netdev - Re: sctp netns "unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 1"

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Date:   Thu, 1 Feb 2018 14:23:55 -0500
From:   Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:     Tommi Rantala <tt.rantala@...il.com>
Cc:     Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@...ia.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Subject: Re: sctp netns "unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
 Usage count = 1"

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 08:02:07PM +0200, Tommi Rantala wrote:
> 2018-01-31 19:51 GMT+02:00 Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@...ia.com>:
> > On 31.01.2018 14:31, Neil Horman wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:42:24AM +0200, Tommi Rantala wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I think there's a problem in the dst refcounting in sctp_v4_get_dst()
> >>>
> >>> There's a dst_entry struct that has >0 refcnt after running the testcase,
> >>> which makes it impossible to delete the loopback device, as that dst is
> >>> never freed.
> >>>
> >>> I'll try to make a patch.
> >>>
> >> Are you looking at the second for loop there, which uses
> >> ip_route_output_key,
> >> but discards the result if dst is already set?  That does look a bit
> >> wonky, and
> >> the same problem may exist in the ipv6 path.  Let me know what the result
> >> is.
> >
> >
> > Yes, that was it. Did you receive the email I sent with the patch?
> > (I'm not seeing that message e.g. at spinics.net linux-sctp archive, so just
> > wondering if that email got lost somehow...)
> >
No, I can't say I saw the patch on the list.  Can you resend it?

Neil