netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm6: call kfree

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Date:   Mon, 3 Sep 2018 10:21:49 +0200
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, <eyal.birger@...il.com>,
        <sd@...asysnail.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] xfrm6: call kfree_skb when skb is toobig

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 08:38:49AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> After commit d6990976af7c5d8f55903bfb4289b6fb030bf754 ("vti6: fix PMTU caching
> and reporting on xmit"), some too big skbs might be potentially passed down to
> __xfrm6_output, causing it to fail to transmit but not free the skb, causing a
> leak of skb, and consequentially a leak of dst references.
> 
> After running pmtu.sh, that shows as failure to unregister devices in a namespace:
> 
> [  311.397671] unregister_netdevice: waiting for veth_b to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> The fix is to call kfree_skb in case of transmit failures.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
> Fixes: dd767856a36e ("xfrm6: Don't call icmpv6_send on local error")

Applied, thanks a lot!