netdev - Re: [Patch net] netns: avoid allocating idr when dumping info

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2015 18:48:59 +0100
From:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
CC:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch net] netns: avoid allocating idr when dumping info

Le 27/02/2015 18:28, Cong Wang a écrit :
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Nicolas Dichtel
> <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
>> Le 27/02/2015 09:01, Eric Dumazet a écrit :
>>
>>> On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 22:32 -0800, Cong Wang wrote:
[snip]
>>>
>>> BTW, (void)peernet2id(dev_net(dev), src_net) can fail, and your fix is
>>> not complete anyway.
>>
>> That's true. The patch does not cover the following case:
>> ip link add foo type bar
>> ip link set foo netns netns1
>>
>> In this case, the second command will call dev_change_net_namespace() and
>> the
>> id will not be allocated.
>
> Then call it in do_setlink(). This is not a reason we _have to_
> allocate it in dumping.
Sure, but that just shows the 'over engineering' side ;-)
The reason to allocate it in dumping is that you need it in dumping, not before ;-)
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