netdev - [PATCH] ipv4: Only destroy inet devices when we receive an NETDEV

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:42:34 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] ipv4: Only destroy inet devices when we receive an NETDEV_UNREGISTER event

Currently we destroy inet devices when we remove the last interface
from an inet device, and during NETDEV_UNREGISTER.  We only create
them during NETDEV_REGISTER event.  The result is if you and an ipv4
address to a device delete it (so the device has no ipv4 addresses)
and attampt to add any ipv4 address to that device you will receive 
an -ENOBUFS error.

To correct the problem this patch simply deletes the excess inet
device destroy.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
---
 net/ipv4/devinet.c |    6 +-----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/devinet.c b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
index fa97b96..abf6352 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/devinet.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/devinet.c
@@ -327,12 +327,8 @@ static void __inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap,
 		}

 	}
-	if (destroy) {
+	if (destroy)
 		inet_free_ifa(ifa1);
-
-		if (!in_dev->ifa_list)
-			inetdev_destroy(in_dev);
-	}
 }

 static void inet_del_ifa(struct in_device *in_dev, struct in_ifaddr **ifap,
-- 
1.5.1.1.181.g2de0

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