netdev - Re: [RFC] about net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.

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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:13:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] about net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of
 private netdev state.

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:40:01 -0700

> Let look at tun->pcpu_stats, for example.
> 
> It is allocated at line 1831, before the register_netdevice()
> 
> drivers/net/tun.c does not provide ndo_init()

I see the problem now.

And it's done this way because several steps need to occur, with
various kinds of dependencies, before the register_netdevice() call is
made.

I'll see if I can untangle this somehow.