Re: [PATCH net] ip6mr: fix notification device destruction

[Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>]

On 21/04/17 22:50, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 21/04/17 22:36, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
>> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:30:42 +0300
>>
>>> On 21/04/17 20:42, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
>>>> Andrey Konovalov reported a BUG caused by the ip6mr code which is caused
>>>> because we call unregister_netdevice_many for a device that is already
>>>> being destroyed. In IPv4's ipmr that has been resolved by two commits
>>>> long time ago by introducing the "notify" parameter to the delete
>>>> function and avoiding the unregister when called from a notifier, so
>>>> let's do the same for ip6mr.
>>  ...
>>> +CC LKML and Linus
>>
>> Applied, thanks Nikolay and thanks Andrey for the report and testing.
>>
>> Nikolay, how far does this bug go back?
>>
> 
> Good question, AFAICS since ip6mr exists because it was copied from ipmr:
> commit 7bc570c8b4f7
> Author: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
> Date:   Thu Apr 3 09:22:53 2008 +0900
> 
>     [IPV6] MROUTE: Support multicast forwarding.
> 
> 

Oops no, my bad. That wouldn't cause it to BUG because it was already removed by mif6_delete
earlier. So since it can be destroyed by a netns exiting, currently I don't see any other
way which is outside of ip6mr for destroying that device.

That should be:
commit 8229efdaef1e
Author: Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@bull.net>
Date:   Wed Dec 10 16:30:15 2008 -0800

    netns: ip6mr: enable namespace support in ipv6 multicast forwarding code


Which allowed the notifier to be executed for pimreg devices in other network namespaces.