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Commit 9f28a2fc authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv4: reintroduce route cache garbage collector



Commit 2c8cec5c (ipv4: Cache learned PMTU information in inetpeer)
removed IP route cache garbage collector a bit too soon, as this gc was
responsible for expired routes cleanup, releasing their neighbour
reference.

As pointed out by Robert Gladewitz, recent kernels can fill and exhaust
their neighbour cache.

Reintroduce the garbage collection, since we'll have to wait our
neighbour lookups become refcount-less to not depend on this stuff.

Reported-by: default avatarRobert Gladewitz <gladewitz@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b4949b84
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