Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:41:45 +1100 | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0) | From | Herbert Xu <> |
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:45:59PM +1100, herbert wrote: > > Although I still think this is a bug, I'm now starting to suspect > that there is another bug around as well. > > There is probably an ifp leak which in turn leads to a split dst > leak that allows the first bug to make its mark.
Found it. This is what happens:
lo goes down => rt6_ifdown => eth0's local address route gets deleted
eth0 goes down => __ipv6_ifa_notify => ip6_del_rt fails so we fall through to the dst_free path. At this point the refcount taken by __ipv6_ifa_notify is leaked.
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