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| author | Salam Noureddine <noureddine@aristanetworks.com> | 2013-09-29 13:41:34 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-09-30 22:28:58 -0700 |
| commit | 9260d3e1013701aa814d10c8fc6a9f92bd17d643 (patch) | |
| tree | 16adfb29127e0f28451e3a42bf0b1242ec5c10e7 /usr | |
| parent | e2401654dd0f5f3fb7a8d80dad9554d73d7ca394 (diff) | |
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ipv6 mcast: use in6_dev_put in timer handlers instead of __in6_dev_put
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 <noureddine@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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