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BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1878232

commit 9ab179d8 upstream.

Vivek reported a kernel exception deleting a VRF with an active
connection through it. The root cause is that the socket has a cached
reference to a dst that is destroyed. Converting the dst_destroy to
dst_release and letting proper reference counting kick in does not
work as the dst has a reference to the device which needs to be released
as well.

I talked to Hannes about this at netdev and he pointed out the ipv4 and
ipv6 dst handling has dst_ifdown for just this scenario. Rather than
continuing with the reinvented dst wheel in VRF just remove it and
leverage the ipv4 and ipv6 versions.

Fixes: 193125db ("net: Introduce VRF device driver")
Fixes: 35402e31

 ("net: Add IPv6 support to VRF device")
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian May <ian.may@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>