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Date:   Wed, 15 Aug 2018 10:32:45 +0900
From:   Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, dsahern@...nel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] veth: Free queues on link delete

On 2018/08/15 10:29, David Ahern wrote:
> On 8/14/18 7:16 PM, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
>> Hmm, on second thought this queues need to be freed after veth_close()
>> to make sure no packet will reference them. That means we need to free
>> them in .ndo_uninit() or destructor.
>> (rtnl_delete_link() calls dellink() before unregister_netdevice_many()
>> which calls dev_close_many() through rollback_registered_many())
>>
>> Currently veth has destructor veth_dev_free() for vstats, so we can free
>> queues in the function.
>> To be in line with vstats, allocation also should be moved to
>> veth_dev_init().
> 
> given that, can you take care of the free in the proper location?

Sure, will cook a patch.
Thanks!

-- 
Toshiaki Makita

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