From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754270Ab3J2SJS (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:09:18 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:59480 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754039Ab3J2SJL (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:09:11 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Salam Noureddine , "David S. Miller" , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.8 54/81] ipv6 mcast: use in6_dev_put in timer handlers instead of __in6_dev_put Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 11:04:15 -0700 Message-Id: <1383069882-11437-55-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1383069882-11437-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1383069882-11437-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.8.13.12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Salam Noureddine [ Upstream commit 9260d3e1013701aa814d10c8fc6a9f92bd17d643 ] It is possible for the timer handlers to run after the call to ipv6_mc_down so use in6_dev_put instead of __in6_dev_put in the handler function in order to do proper cleanup when the refcnt reaches 0. Otherwise, the refcnt can reach zero without the inet6_dev being destroyed and we end up leaking a reference to the net_device and see messages like the following, unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1 Tested on linux-3.4.43. Signed-off-by: Salam Noureddine Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- net/ipv6/mcast.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c index 79fa628..ac1b533 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c +++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c @@ -2155,7 +2155,7 @@ static void mld_gq_timer_expire(unsigned long data) idev->mc_gq_running = 0; mld_send_report(idev, NULL); - __in6_dev_put(idev); + in6_dev_put(idev); } static void mld_ifc_timer_expire(unsigned long data) @@ -2168,7 +2168,7 @@ static void mld_ifc_timer_expire(unsigned long data) if (idev->mc_ifc_count) mld_ifc_start_timer(idev, idev->mc_maxdelay); } - __in6_dev_put(idev); + in6_dev_put(idev); } static void mld_ifc_event(struct inet6_dev *idev) -- 1.8.1.2