netdev - Re: [Patch net] ipv6: fix double refcount of fib6

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Date:   Sun, 05 Aug 2018 17:23:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sd@...asysnail.net, dsahern@...il.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net] ipv6: fix double refcount of fib6_metrics

From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Date: Thu,  2 Aug 2018 23:20:38 -0700

> All the callers of ip6_rt_copy_init()/rt6_set_from() hold refcnt
> of the "from" fib6_info, so there is no need to hold fib6_metrics
> refcnt again, because fib6_metrics refcnt is only released when
> fib6_info is gone, that is, they have the same life time, so the
> whole fib6_metrics refcnt can be removed actually.
> 
> This fixes a kmemleak warning reported by Sabrina.
> 
> Fixes: 93531c674315 ("net/ipv6: separate handling of FIB entries from dst based routes")
> Reported-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
> Cc: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Cong.