netdev - Re: regression (4.10) - interface remove uevents not generated

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Date:   Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:50:48 -0800
From:   Andrei Vagin <avagin@...tuozzo.com>
To:     Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@...il.com>
CC:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: regression (4.10) - interface remove uevents not generated

Hi Mantas,

Thank you for the report. Could you try out the attached patch?

On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 05:10:22PM +0200, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It seems that commit 002d8a1a6c11b9b2a8ac615095589111dd52749b ("net:
> skip genenerating uevents for network namespaces that are exiting")
> broke 'remove' uevents for *all* network interfaces, even for those in
> the main/default namespace.
> 
> Other than breaking some of my udev rules, this also causes problems for
> NetworkManager, which apparently relies on those uevents to update its
> interface information cache. (I ended up reverting that commit locally
> just so I could connect to VPNs again.)
> 
> This problem is present in both v4.10.1 and current master
> (v4.11-rc1-290-g434fd6353b4c).
> 
> -- 
> Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@...il.com>

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