netdev - Re: Refcount mismatch when unregistering netdevice from kernel

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Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:28:56 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com>, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        stranche@...eaurora.org, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: Refcount mismatch when unregistering netdevice from kernel

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 11:21:26 -0800 Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:11 AM Wei Wang <weiwan@...gle.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 8:58 PM David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:  
> > > On 1/4/21 8:05 PM, stranche@...eaurora.org wrote:  
> > Ah, I see now. rt6_flush_exceptions is called by fib6_del_route, but
> > > that won't handle replace.
> > >
> > > If you look at fib6_purge_rt it already has a call to remove pcpu
> > > entries. This call to flush exceptions should go there and the existing
> > > one in fib6_del_route can be removed.
> > >  
> > Thanks for catching this!
> > Agree with this proposed fix.  
> 
> Looks like this fix never landed?
> Is it still needed or there was an alternative fix merged?

Wasn't it:

d8f5c29653c3 ("net: ipv6: fib: flush exceptions when purging route")

?