Re: [PATCH RFC v2 net-next 19/21] net/ipv6: separate handling of FIB entries from dst based routes
From: Ido Schimmel <hidden>
Date: 2018-03-24 16:02:13
On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 09:31:02AM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
On 3/24/18 8:31 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:quoted
On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 08:36:20PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:quoted
@@ -405,18 +383,9 @@ static void ip6_dst_destroy(struct dst_entry *dst) rt->rt6i_idev = NULL; in6_dev_put(idev); } - bucket = rcu_dereference_protected(rt->rt6i_exception_bucket, 1); - if (bucket) { - rt->rt6i_exception_bucket = NULL; - kfree(bucket); - } - - m = rt->fib6_metrics; - if (m != &dst_default_metrics && refcount_dec_and_test(&m->refcnt)) - kfree(m);You remove this...quoted
rt->from = NULL; - dst_release(&from->dst); + fib6_info_release(from);Yet fib6_info_release() doesn't take care of it (unlike the IPv4 equivalent), which means you're leaking the metrics.quoted
}ok, I'll take a look. I thought I verified both paths (fib6_info and dst) were freeing the metrics.
I get this from kmemleak (applied your patchset on top of fe2d55d295cf): unreferenced object 0xffff88004e2c16c8 (size 96): comm "systemd-network", pid 1255, jiffies 4295166424 (age 957.858s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: ip6_route_info_create (/net/ipv6/route.c:2849) ip6_route_add (/net/ipv6/route.c:2975) inet6_rtm_newroute (/net/ipv6/route.c:4357) rtnetlink_rcv_msg (/net/core/rtnetlink.c:4643) netlink_rcv_skb (/net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2445) netlink_unicast (/net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1309 /net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1334) netlink_sendmsg (/net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1897) sock_sendmsg (/net/socket.c:630 /net/socket.c:639) SYSC_sendto (/net/socket.c:1748) do_syscall_64 (/arch/x86/entry/common.c:287) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:239) 0xffffffffffffffff (/./include/asm-generic/sections.h:42)