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Plug some ifaddr refcount leaks.
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Authored by markj on Dec 23 2019, 7:09 PM.
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Summary
  • Don't take a ref in rt_exportinfo(). This was quite wrong in that we took the ref even when NHR_REF was not set.
  • Don't unconditionally take a ref in rtrequest1_fib(). rt_getifa_fib() will acquire a reference, in which case we would previously acquire two references.
  • Stop taking a reference in rtinit1() before calling rtrequest1_fib(). rtrequest1_fib() will acquire a reference for the RTM_ADD case.
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This fixes a memory leak observed when removing an interface address.

I would appreciate any testing that others can provide.

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markj added a reviewer: network.
markj added reviewers: ae, melifaro.

LGTM.

Any chance you have some dtrace / kgdb scripts verifying refcounting that can be added to the test suite?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Dec 25 2019, 10:07 AM

LGTM.

Any chance you have some dtrace / kgdb scripts verifying refcounting that can be added to the test suite?

I'm afraid I don't. I added some dtrace probes to ifa_ref() and friends to help debug the issue and looked at the vmstat -m stats to verify the change, but it was all ad-hoc.

sys/net/route.c
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I guess it would be formally correct to take a ref in the NHR_REF case, though no existing callers care. I will do that and make sure we release the reference.

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