linux-kernel - Re: [ 12/53] net: In unregister_netdevice

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Date:	Sat, 19 May 2012 01:31:36 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	herton.krzesinski@...onical.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [ 12/53] net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister the
 netdevices.

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 01:41 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton.krzesinski@...onical.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 02:09:05 -0300
> 
> > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 03:33:06AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >> 3.2.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >> 
> >> ------------------
> >> 
> >> From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> >> 
> >> [ Upstream commit 7d3d43dab4e978d8d9ad1acf8af15c9b1c4b0f0f ]
> >> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > It seems this introduces a regression later fixed by commit
> > c57b54684060c8aced64a5b78ff69ff289af97b9
> 
> Indeed, but thankfully that only hits people who try to unload the
> pktgen module which is a pretty small group of people :)

Surely we ought to avoid introducing a known regression.  Though I also
see that that the above fix for pktgen was incorrect and the
fix-of-the-fix (d4b1133558e0d417342d5d2c49e4c35b428ff20d) is not in
mainline yet.  But if the latter reaches mainline by Sunday, perhaps I
could add them both?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed.
                                                         - Carolyn Scheppner

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