netdev - Re: [PATCH net] netns: don't clear nsid too early on removal

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Date:	Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:59:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netns: don't clear nsid too early on removal

From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:56:38 +0100

> With the current code, ids are removed too early.
> Suppose you have an ipip interface that stands in the netns foo and its link
> part in the netns bar (so the netns bar has an nsid into the netns foo).
> Now, you remove the netns bar:
>  - the bar nsid into the netns foo is removed
>  - the netns exit method of ipip is called, thus our ipip iface is removed:
>    => a netlink message is sent in the netns foo to advertise this deletion
>    => this netlink message requests an nsid for bar, thus a new nsid is
>       allocated for bar and never removed.
> 
> We must remove nsids when we are sure that nobody will refer to netns currently
> cleaned.
> 
> Fixes: 0c7aecd4bde4 ("netns: add rtnl cmd to add and get peer netns ids")
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>

Applied, thanks.
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