netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] vxlan: Move socket initialization to within rtnl scope

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Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2015 22:05:38 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hannes@...essinduktion.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] vxlan: Move socket initialization to within rtnl
 scope

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:50:44 -0300

> Currently, if a multicast join operation fail, the vxlan interface will
> be UP but not functional, without even a log message informing the user.
> 
> Now that we can grab socket lock after already having rntl, we don't
> need to defer socket creation and multicast operations. By not deferring
> we can do proper error reporting to the user through ip exit code.
> 
> This patch thus removes all deferred work that vxlan had and put it back
> inline. Now the socket will only be created, bound and join multicast
> group when one bring the interface up, and will undo all that as soon as
> one put the interface down.
> 
> As vxlan_sock_hold() is not used after this patch, it was removed too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

Applied to net-next.
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