linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 16/31] net: Convert uevent_net

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Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:34:42 +0300
From:   Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
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Subject: [PATCH v2 16/31] net: Convert uevent_net_ops

uevent_net_init() and uevent_net_exit() create and
destroy netlink socket, and these actions serialized
in netlink code.

Parallel execution with other pernet_operations
makes the socket disappear earlier from uevent_sock_list
on ->exit. As userspace can't be interested in broadcast
messages of dying net, and, as I see, no one in kernel
listen them, we may safely make uevent_net_ops async.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
---
 lib/kobject_uevent.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
index c3e84edc47c9..4a2c39ae1e65 100644
--- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c
+++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c
@@ -643,6 +643,7 @@ static void uevent_net_exit(struct net *net)
 static struct pernet_operations uevent_net_ops = {
 	.init	= uevent_net_init,
 	.exit	= uevent_net_exit,
+	.async  = true,
 };
 
 static int __init kobject_uevent_init(void)