Patch "ip6_gre: release cached dst on tunnel removal" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ip6_gre: release cached dst on tunnel removal
to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ip6_gre-release-cached-dst-on-tunnel-removal.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From foo@baz Tue Sep 29 14:20:47 CEST 2015
From: huaibin Wang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:20:34 +0200
Subject: ip6_gre: release cached dst on tunnel removal
From: huaibin Wang <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit d4257295ba1b389c693b79de857a96e4b7cd8ac0 ]
When a tunnel is deleted, the cached dst entry should be released.
This problem may prevent the removal of a netns (seen with a x-netns IPv6 gre tunnel):
unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 3
--- net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c +1 -0
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ static void ip6gre_tunnel_uninit(structstruct ip6gre_net *ign =net_generic (net, ip6gre_net_id);ip6gre_tunnel_unlink (ign,netdev_priv (dev)); +ip6_tnl_dst_reset (netdev_priv (dev));dev_put (dev); }
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.10/ip6_gre-release-cached-dst-on-tunnel-removal.patch