netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: race condition when removing virtual net

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Date:	Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:02:22 -0700
From:	Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...stanetworks.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: race condition when removing virtual net_device

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Francesco Ruggeri
<fruggeri@...stanetworks.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>> Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...stanetworks.com> writes:
...
> netdev_run_todo. This guarantees that no deadlocks are introduced,
> since the relative order of net_devices within each namespace is
> preserved, and only non-loopback_devs take and release the extra
> reference.

I should have said "since in net_todo_list the relative order of
net_devices within each namespace is the same as before, ...".

Sorry for any confusion.

Francesco
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