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Commit 4d33ab08 authored by Xin Long's avatar Xin Long Committed by Paolo Abeni
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xfrm: set dst dev to blackhole_netdev instead of loopback_dev in ifdown



The global blackhole_netdev has replaced pernet loopback_dev to become the
one given to the object that holds an netdev when ifdown in many places of
ipv4 and ipv6 since commit 8d7017fd ("blackhole_netdev: use
blackhole_netdev to invalidate dst entries").

Especially after commit faab39f6 ("net: allow out-of-order netdev
unregistration"), it's no longer safe to use loopback_dev that may be
freed before other netdev.

This patch is to set dst dev to blackhole_netdev instead of loopback_dev
in ifdown.

v1->v2:
  - add Fixes tag as Eric suggested.

Fixes: faab39f6 ("net: allow out-of-order netdev unregistration")
Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e8c87482998ca6fcdab214f5a9d582899ec0c648.1652665047.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
parent ef6b1cd1
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