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SubjectRe: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] net/bridge: Add missing in6_dev_put in br_validate_ipv6

On 07/04/2015 02:01 AM, Julien Grall wrote:
> The commit efb6de9b4ba0092b2c55f6a52d16294a8a698edd "netfilter: bridge:
> forward IPv6 fragmented packets" introduced a new function
> br_validate_ipv6 which take a reference on the inet6 device. Although,
> the reference is not released at the end.
>
> This will result to the impossibility to destroy any netdevice using
> ipv6 and bridge.
>
> Spotted while trying to destroy a Xen guest on the upstream Linux:
> "unregister_netdevice: waiting for vif1.0 to become free. Usage count = 1"
>
> Signed-off-by: Julien Grall <julien.grall@citrix.com>

Also hit the same issue, thank you for the fix.

Tested-by: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>

> Cc: Bernhard Thaler <bernhard.thaler@wvnet.at>
> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> Cc: fw@strlen.de
> Cc: ian.campbell@citrix.com
> Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com
>
> ---
> Note that it's impossible to create new guest after this message.
> I'm not sure if it's normal.
> ---
> net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c b/net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c
> index 6d12d26..7046e19 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_netfilter_ipv6.c
> @@ -140,11 +140,16 @@ int br_validate_ipv6(struct sk_buff *skb)
> /* No IP options in IPv6 header; however it should be
> * checked if some next headers need special treatment
> */
> +
> + in6_dev_put(idev);
> +
> return 0;
>
> inhdr_error:
> IP6_INC_STATS_BH(dev_net(dev), idev, IPSTATS_MIB_INHDRERRORS);
> drop:
> + in6_dev_put(idev);
> +
> return -1;
> }
>
>


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