Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:00:49AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> However I do know I have correctly found the leak. > > Yes you are right. The locking/refcounting in addrconf.c is such > a mess. I've asked a number of times before as to why most of > this can't be done in user-space instead. There is nothing performance > critical here, and the system must be able to deal with a device with > no IPv6 addresses anyway (think of the case when the device was up before > ipv6.ko was loaded).
A lot of the latter case is handled by the replay of netdevice events when you register a netdevice notifier. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
