netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnetlink: delay RTM_DELLINK notification until after ndo

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Date:	Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:52:40 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:	Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnetlink: delay RTM_DELLINK notification
 until after ndo_uninit()

On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 08:41 -0800, Roopa Prabhu wrote:

> fair point. But the commit that moved things around was done to handle 
> cases where,
> the ndo_uninit() already sends some notifications to userspace for the 
> changes
> during uninit (example bond driver).
> 
> The only point i was making was that the dellink after the ndo_uninit in 
> your
> case now contains state that was prior to uninit for these drivers.

I think Mahesh forgot to mention your patch probably broke some drivers.

calling rtmsg_ifinfo() after uninit() is probably breaking dummy device,
as it does :

static void dummy_dev_uninit(struct net_device *dev)
{
	free_percpu(dev->dstats);
}

It looks like 'fixing' ipvlan is not going to help.

Instead of checking all drivers for such interesting side effects,
and revert your patch, we had the idea of this solution.


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