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From: Gao feng <gaofeng@cn•fujitsu.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail•com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail•com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many()
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 09:27:24 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53950D7C.5060001@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402062243.3645.295.camel@edumazet-glaptop2.roam.corp.google.com>

On 06/06/2014 09:44 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>
> 
> unregister_netdevice_many() API is error prone and we had too
> many bugs because of dangling LIST_HEAD on stacks.
> 
> See commit f87e6f47933e3e ("net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD")
> 
> In fact, instead of making sure no caller leaves an active list_head,
> just force a list_del() in the callee. No one seems to need to access
> the list after unregister_netdevice_many()
> 

Just like the patch I posted one year ago, interesting :)
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/223521/

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-09  1:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-04  0:11 [Patch net-next] net: remove some unless free on failure in alloc_netdev_mqs() Cong Wang
2014-06-04  0:11 ` [Patch net-next] net: remove some useless list_del() Cong Wang
2014-06-04  0:24   ` David Miller
2014-06-04  0:43   ` Eric Dumazet
2014-06-04  2:18     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-06-04  8:26       ` Daniel Borkmann
2014-06-06  6:40     ` Cong Wang
2014-06-06 13:17       ` Eric Dumazet
2014-06-06 13:44         ` [PATCH net-next] net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many() Eric Dumazet
2014-06-06 15:54           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-06-08 21:15           ` David Miller
2014-06-09  1:27           ` Gao feng [this message]
2014-06-09  5:48             ` Eric Dumazet
2014-06-09  5:58         ` [Patch net-next] net: remove some useless list_del() Cong Wang
2014-06-04  2:19 ` [Patch net-next] net: remove some unless free on failure in alloc_netdev_mqs() David Miller

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