netdev - Re: linux-next: net->netns_ids is used after calling idr

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Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 10:50:50 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>
Cc:     Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: net->netns_ids is used after calling idr_destroy for it

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com> wrote:
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> cleanup_net() calls idr_destroy(net->netns_ids) for network namespaces
>> and then it calls unregister_netdevice_many() which calls
>> idr_alloc(net0>netns_ids). It looks wrong, doesn't it?
>>
>
> netns id is designed to allocate lazily, but yeah it makes no sense
> to allocate id for the netns being destroyed, not to mention idr is freed.
>
> I will send a patch.

Could you try the attached patch? I just did some quick netns creation/destroy
tests.

Thanks!

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