Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many()

From: Gao feng <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 09:27:24 +0800

On 06/06/2014 09:44 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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/