ipv6: replacing a rt6_info needs to purge possible propagated rt6_infos too
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: 4a287eba ("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>
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