Re: CVE request: ipv4: Don't do expensive useless work during inetdev destroy

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> Destroy of network interface with huge number of ipv4 addresses
> keeps rtnl_lock for a very long time (up to hour).
> It blocks many network related operations,

> > in this scenerio we do two pointless things which can
> > be very expensive

> The problem is especially important for containers,
> container owner have enough permission to enable this trigger

> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/patch/?id=fbd40ea0180a2d328c5adc61414dc8bab9335ce2

Use CVE-2016-3156.

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