All the callers of ip6_rt_copy_init()/rt6_set_from() hold refcnt
of the "from" fib6_info, so there is no need to hold fib6_metrics
refcnt again, because fib6_metrics refcnt is only released when
fib6_info is gone, that is, they have the same life time, so the
whole fib6_metrics refcnt can be removed actually.
This fixes a kmemleak warning reported by Sabrina.
Fixes: 93531c674315 ("net/ipv6: separate handling of FIB entries from dst based
routes")
Reported-by: Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net>
Cc: Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com>
---
net/ipv6/route.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/route.c b/net/ipv6/route.c
index ec18b3ce8b6d..7208c16302f6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/route.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/route.c
@@ -978,10 +978,6 @@ static void rt6_set_from(struct rt6_info *rt, struct
fib6_info *from)
rt->rt6i_flags &= ~RTF_EXPIRES;
rcu_assign_pointer(rt->from, from);
dst_init_metrics(&rt->dst, from->fib6_metrics->metrics, true);
- if (from->fib6_metrics != &dst_default_metrics) {
- rt->dst._metrics |= DST_METRICS_REFCOUNTED;
- refcount_inc(&from->fib6_metrics->refcnt);
- }
}
/* Caller must already hold reference to @ort */
--
2.14.4
