ip6_gre: release cached dst on tunnel removal
authorhuaibin Wang <huaibin.wang@6wind.com>
Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:20:34 +0000 (16:20 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:36:22 +0000 (11:36 +0200)
[ 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

CC: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@mail.ru>
Fixes: c12b395a4664 ("gre: Support GRE over IPv6")
Signed-off-by: huaibin Wang <huaibin.wang@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c

index 4a230b18dfe37deafb333cbb2cb135fffcaaf5d1..baffa3b7a328d295adb4b4437d3484f1c9b356b5 100644 (file)
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ static void ip6gre_tunnel_uninit(struct net_device *dev)
        struct 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);
 }