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Commit e2401654 authored by Salam Noureddine's avatar Salam Noureddine Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv4 igmp: use in_dev_put in timer handlers instead of __in_dev_put



It is possible for the timer handlers to run after the call to
ip_mc_down so use in_dev_put instead of __in_dev_put in the handler
function in order to do proper cleanup when the refcnt reaches 0.
Otherwise, the refcnt can reach zero without the in_device being
destroyed and we end up leaking a reference to the net_device and
see messages like the following,

unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1

Tested on linux-3.4.43.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSalam Noureddine <noureddine@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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