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Lubomir Rintel reported that during replacing a route the interface
reference counter isn't correctly decremented.
To quote bug <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91941>:
| [root@rhel7-5 lkundrak]# sh -x lal
| + ip link add dev0 type dummy
| + ip link set dev0 up
| + ip link add dev1 type dummy
| + ip link set dev1 up
| + ip addr add 2001:db8:8086::2/64 dev dev0
| + ip route add 2001:db8:8086::/48 dev dev0 proto static metric 20
| + ip route add 2001:db8:8088::/48 dev dev1 proto static metric 10
| + ip route replace 2001:db8:8086::/48 dev dev1 proto static metric 20
| + ip link del dev0 type dummy
| Message from syslogd@rhel7-5 at Jan 23 10:54:41 ...
| kernel:unregister_netdevice: waiting for dev0 to become free. Usage count = 2
|
| Message from syslogd@rhel7-5 at Jan 23 10:54:51 ...
| kernel:unregister_netdevice: waiting for dev0 to become free. Usage count = 2
During replacement of a rt6_info we must walk all parent nodes and check
if the to be replaced rt6_info got propagated. If so, replace it with
an alive one.
Fixes: 4a287eba2d ("IPv6 routing, NLM_F_* flag support: REPLACE and EXCL flags support, warn about missing CREATE flag")
Reported-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Tested-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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