ipv6: fix missing in6_ifa_put in addrconf
authorJohn Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 20:29:21 +0000 (20:29 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:37:36 +0000 (07:37 -0800)
Fix ref count bug introduced by

commit 2de795707294972f6c34bae9de713e502c431296
Author: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 27 18:16:49 2010 +0000

ipv6: addrconf: don't remove address state on ifdown if the address
is being kept

Fix logic so that addrconf_ifdown() decrements the inet6_ifaddr
refcnt correctly with in6_ifa_put().

Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c

index 2fc35b32df9eacb3c1dcebf153700b5056bc9689..23cc8e1ce8d4995a551ca93d98434e9150ad1740 100644 (file)
@@ -2758,13 +2758,13 @@ static int addrconf_ifdown(struct net_device *dev, int how)
                        ifa->state = INET6_IFADDR_STATE_DEAD;
                        spin_unlock_bh(&ifa->state_lock);
 
-                       if (state == INET6_IFADDR_STATE_DEAD) {
-                               in6_ifa_put(ifa);
-                       } else {
+                       if (state != INET6_IFADDR_STATE_DEAD) {
                                __ipv6_ifa_notify(RTM_DELADDR, ifa);
                                atomic_notifier_call_chain(&inet6addr_chain,
                                                           NETDEV_DOWN, ifa);
                        }
+
+                       in6_ifa_put(ifa);
                        write_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
                }
        }