netdev - Re: [Patch net] ipv4: restore rt->fi for reference counting

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Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 18:22:23 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Julian Anastasov <ja@....bg>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] ipv4: restore rt->fi for reference counting

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
> So, if I understand you correctly it is safe to NULL'ing
> nh_dev in NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL, right?
>
> If still not, how about transfer nh_dev's to loopback_dev
> too in NETDEV_UNREGISTER? Like we transfer dst->dev.
>
> I don't want to touch the fast path to check for NULL, as
> it will change more code and slow down performance.

Finally I come up with the attached patch. Please let me know if
I still miss anything.

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