netdev - Re: [PATCH] netns: remove useless synchronize

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Date:	Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:40:36 +0100
From:	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@....6wind.com
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netns: remove useless synchronize_net()

Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 06.02.2009 23:10, David Miller a écrit :
>> From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@....6wind.com>
>> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:50:53 +0100
>>
>>> If namespace is destroyed after this function, then cleanup_net()
>>> will ensure that nobody is looking at it
>>
>> Maybe, but you better get some opinions from the people who wrote
>> and maintain the network namespace code before I can consider
>> your change seriously.
>>
>> None of them responded to your patch posting, probably because
>> you failed to CC: any of them.
> Sorry, I forget to cc them, now it's done.
> The thread can be found here: 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=123382930115535&w=2
>
> So, I'm waiting for maintainers's opinions.
We can move one network device from one namespace to another namespace, 
and that do not necessarily implies the network namespace will die and 
call cleanup_net.
Without synchronize_net, it would be possible to have netif_receive_skb 
and dev_change_net_namespace to be executed concurrently, no ?
Wouldn't the execution of one of this function be problematic if we are 
in the delivery of a packet to the upper protocol in the big 
rcu_read_lock section of netif_receive_skb ?

    dev_shutdown(dev);

    /* Notify protocols, that we are about to destroy
       this device. They should clean all the things.
    */
    call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);

    /*
     *    Flush the unicast and multicast chains
     */
    dev_addr_discard(dev);

    netdev_unregister_kobject(dev);

    /* Actually switch the network namespace */
    dev_net_set(dev, net);


Thanks
  -- Daniel


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