Andrew and Ying Huang's test robot both reported usage count problems that
trace back to the 'keep address on ifdown' patch.
>From Andrew:
We execute CRIU test on linux-next. On the current linux-next kernel
they hangs on creating a network namespace.
The kernel log contains many massages like this:
[ 1036.122108] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
Usage count = 2
[ 1046.165156] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
Usage count = 2
[ 1056.210287] unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free.
Usage count = 2
I tried to revert this patch and the bug disappeared.
Here is a set of commands to reproduce this bug:
[root@linux-next-test linux-next]# uname -a
Linux linux-next-test 4.5.0-rc6-next-20160301+ #3 SMP Wed Mar 2
17:32:18 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@linux-next-test ~]# unshare -n
[root@linux-next-test ~]# ip link set up dev lo
[root@linux-next-test ~]# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
[root@linux-next-test ~]# logout
[root@linux-next-test ~]# unshare -n
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The problem is a change made to RTM_DELADDR case in __ipv6_ifa_notify that
was added in an early version of the offending patch and is no longer
needed.
Fixes: f1705ec197 ("net: ipv6: Make address flushing on ifdown optional")
Cc: Andrey Wagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ying Huang <ying.huang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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