On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:45:59PM +1100, herbert wrote:
>
> Although I still think this is a bug, I'm now starting to suspect
> that there is another bug around as well.
>
> There is probably an ifp leak which in turn leads to a split dst
> leak that allows the first bug to make its mark.
Found it. This is what happens:
lo goes down =>
rt6_ifdown =>
eth0's local address route gets deleted
eth0 goes down =>
__ipv6_ifa_notify =>
ip6_del_rt fails so we fall through to the
dst_free path. At this point the refcount
taken by __ipv6_ifa_notify is leaked.
Cheers,
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