Bug 231079 - Running "cat /proc/net/anycast6" causes a reference leak
Summary: Running "cat /proc/net/anycast6" causes a reference leak
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 231310
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Chris Lalancette
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-05 23:09 UTC by Chris Lalancette
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-03-07 19:18:46 UTC
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Simple patch to correctly "put" ipv6 device (314 bytes, patch)
2007-03-05 23:11 UTC, Chris Lalancette 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Chris Lalancette 2007-03-05 23:09:31 UTC 
Description of problem:
Running "cat /proc/net/anycast6" in the current RHEL-5 current causes a
reference leak, where we do an "in6_dev_get", but never a "in6_dev_put" in
ac6_get_first().  This results in ethernet devices that cannot be removed with
rmmod, and requires a reboot to fix.  The solution is from an upstream patch here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=aa6e4a96e7589948fe770744f7bb4f0f743dddaa

which just adds the in6_dev_put.
Comment 1 Chris Lalancette 2007-03-05 23:11:23 UTC 
Created attachment 149304 [details]
Simple patch to correctly "put" ipv6 device
Comment 2 Andy Gospodarek 2007-03-07 19:18:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 231310 ***
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