On 9/17/18 10:20 AM, Peter Oskolkov wrote:
> DST_NOCOUNT in dst_entry::flags tracks whether the entry counts
> toward route cache size (net->ipv6.sysctl.ip6_rt_max_size).
>
> If the flag is NOT set, dst_ops::pcpuc_entries counter is incremented
> in dist_init() and decremented in dst_destroy().
>
> This flag is tied to allocation/deallocation of dst_entry and
> should not be copied from another dst/route. Otherwise it can happen
> that dst_ops::pcpuc_entries counter grows until no new routes can
> be allocated because the counter reached ip6_rt_max_size due to
> DST_NOCOUNT not set and thus no counter decrements on gc-ed routes.
>
> Fixes: 3b6761d18bc1 ("net/ipv6: Move dst flags to booleans in fib entries")
> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Wei Wang <wei...@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <p...@google.com>
> ---
> net/ipv6/route.c | 2 --
> 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
> index 3eed045c65a5..480a79f47c52 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/route.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
> @@ -946,8 +946,6 @@ static void ip6_rt_init_dst_reject(struct rt6_info *rt,
> struct fib6_info *ort)
>
> static void ip6_rt_init_dst(struct rt6_info *rt, struct fib6_info *ort)
> {
> - rt->dst.flags |= fib6_info_dst_flags(ort);
> -
> if (ort->fib6_flags & RTF_REJECT) {
> ip6_rt_init_dst_reject(rt, ort);
> return;
>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Thanks for the patch.
