Subject: [PATCH 1/2] net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister the netdevices.

From: [email-masked] (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:33:35 -0700

>>From a51fda849355b2ffb27cdb5d66fa1a96e7f47335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric W. Biederman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 19:39:52 -0800
Subject: 

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 safe as it adds no new cases for existing callers
of unregiser_netdevice_notifier to handle.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[email-masked]>
---
 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;
 }
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