netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Delay default_device_exit_batch until no devices are unregistering v2

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Date:	Sat, 28 Sep 2013 15:14:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	fruggeri@...stanetworks.com, edumazet@...gle.com, jiri@...nulli.us,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, amwang@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Delay default_device_exit_batch until no devices
 are unregistering v2

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:19:49 -0700

> 
> There is currently serialization network namespaces exiting and
> network devices exiting as the final part of netdev_run_todo does not
> happen under the rtnl_lock.  This is compounded by the fact that the
> only list of devices unregistering in netdev_run_todo is local to the
> netdev_run_todo.
> 
> This lack of serialization in extreme cases results in network devices
> unregistering in netdev_run_todo after the loopback device of their
> network namespace has been freed (making dst_ifdown unsafe), and after
> the their network namespace has exited (making the NETDEV_UNREGISTER,
> and NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL callbacks unsafe).
> 
> Add the missing serialization by a per network namespace count of how
> many network devices are unregistering and having a wait queue that is
> woken up whenever the count is decreased.  The count and wait queue
> allow default_device_exit_batch to wait until all of the unregistration
> activity for a network namespace has finished before proceeding to
> unregister the loopback device and then allowing the network namespace
> to exit.
> 
> Only a single global wait queue is used because there is a single global
> lock, and there is a single waiter, per network namespace wait queues
> would be a waste of resources.
> 
> The per network namespace count of unregistering devices gives a
> progress guarantee because the number of network devices unregistering
> in an exiting network namespace must ultimately drop to zero (assuming
> network device unregistration completes).
> 
> The basic logic remains the same as in v1.  This patch is now half
> comment and half rtnl_lock_unregistering an expanded version of
> wait_event performs no extra work in the common case where no network
> devices are unregistering when we get to default_device_exit_batch.
> 
> Reported-by: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@...stanetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>

Applied, thanks for following up on this Eric.
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