netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: try harder to not reuse ifindex when moving interfaces

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Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:32:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jbenc@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, thaller@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: try harder to not reuse ifindex when moving
 interfaces

From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:46:13 +0200

> For example, we could always alloc a new ifindex when moving interfaces
> between name spaces. That would be probably the tiniest race window we
> could get to (still not zero!) but I guess it would break apps that
> assume that ifindex doesn't change when moving interfaces between name
> spaces (which is not true, such apps are already broken, they just
> happen to work in 99% of cases). The second best solution that doesn't
> break those apps at the cost of leaving the race window wider, is this
> patch.

As you say the apps are broken, so file a bug and have them fixed.

The assumption is clearly invalid, so apps cannot make such an
assumption.
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