netdev - Re: [Patch net-next 4/5] net_sched: forbid setting default qdisc to inappropriate ones

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Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:14:54 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 4/5] net_sched: forbid setting default qdisc to
 inappropriate ones

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:41:26 -0700
> Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> wrote:
>
>> Currently there is no check for if a qdisc is appropriate
>> to be used as the default qdisc. This causes we get no
>> error even we set the default qdisc to an inappropriate one
>> but an error will be shown up later. This is not good.
>>
>> Also, for qdisc's like HTB, kernel will just crash when
>> we use it as default qdisc, because some data structures are
>> not even initialized yet before checking opt == NULL, the cleanup
>> doing ->reset() or ->destroy() on them will just crash.
>
> Why not fix the buggy one's instead?

They are not exactly buggy, since they are fine in other ->init() calling
cases.

As in the first paragraph you quoted from me, it is more like
a usability issue, for example ingress qdisc can be set as default
without any error at any time.
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