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Subject: Re: net: hang in unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free
To:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
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From:   David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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Date:   Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:59:59 -0700
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On 1/30/18 1:57 PM, David Ahern wrote:
> On 1/30/18 1:08 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> On 01/30/2018 07:32 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:09 AM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> The following program creates a hang in unregister_netdevice.
>>>> cleanup_net work hangs there forever periodically printing
>>>> "unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 3"
>>>> and creation of any new network namespaces hangs forever.
>>>
>>> Interestingly, this is not reproducible on net-next.
>>
>> The most recent change on netns refcnt was 4ee806d51176 ("net: tcp: close
>> sock if net namespace is exiting") in net/net-next from 5 days ago, maybe
>> fixed due to that?
>>
> 
> This appears to be the commit introducing the refcnt leak:
> 
> $ git bisect bad
> dbc2b5e9a09e9a6664679a667ff81cff6e5f2641 is the first bad commit
> commit dbc2b5e9a09e9a6664679a667ff81cff6e5f2641
> Author: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
> Date:   Fri May 12 14:39:52 2017 +0800
> 
>     sctp: fix src address selection if using secondary addresses for ipv6
> 
> 
> v4.14 is bad. Running bisect in the background while doing other things....
> 

Interesting. The commit that avoids the refcnt leak is

commit 955ec4cb3b54c7c389a9f830be7d3ae2056b9212
Author: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 24 19:45:29 2018 -0800

    net/ipv6: Do not allow route add with a device that is down

That commit does not intentionally address the problem so it is just
masking the problematic code introduced by the commit above.