Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | "[PATCH 1/2]"@fess.ebiederm.org, "net:In"@fess.ebiederm.org, , , , "netdevices."@fess.ebiederm.org | Date | Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:31:14 -0700 | Subject | Re: net: kernel BUG() in net/netns/generic.h:45 |
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We already synthesize events in register_netdevice_notifier and synthesizing events in unregister_netdevice_notifier allows to us remove the need for special case cleanup code.
This change should be trivially safe as it adds no new cases for existing callers of unregister_netdevice_notifier to handle.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> --- net/core/dev.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index 452db70..77c0a87 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1410,14 +1410,34 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice_notifier); * register_netdevice_notifier(). The notifier is unlinked into the * kernel structures and may then be reused. A negative errno code * is returned on a failure. + * + * After unregistering unregister and down device events are synthesized + * for all devices on the device list to the removed notifier to remove + * the need for special case cleanup code. */ int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) { + struct net_device *dev; + struct net *net; int err; rtnl_lock(); err = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&netdev_chain, nb); + if (err) + goto unlock; + + for_each_net(net) { + for_each_netdev(net, dev) { + if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) { + nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_GOING_DOWN, dev); + nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_DOWN, dev); + } + nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev); + nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, dev); + } + } +unlock: rtnl_unlock(); return err; } -- 1.7.2.5
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