netdev - Re: rtnl_newlink() cleanup on namespace change

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Date:	Tue, 10 Mar 2015 16:44:06 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rtnl_newlink() cleanup on namespace change

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 3:43 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> Cong, I was reviewing commit 7afb8886a05be68e376655539a064ec672de8a8e
> ("rtnetlink: call ->dellink on failure when ->newlink exists") during
> a stable backport and I noticed that the function, after the change
> you made, subsequently goes:
>
>                 if (link_net) {
>                         err = dev_change_net_namespace(dev, dest_net, ifname);
>                         if (err < 0)
>                                 unregister_netdevice(dev);
>                 }
>
> Isn't the potential ->dellink() unwinding necessary in this path too?
>

Right, I wasn't aware of the link_net change.
Do you want me to send a fix?

Thanks.
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