netdev - Re: macvlan: Fix device ref leak when purging bc

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Date:   Fri, 21 Apr 2017 12:40:29 +0800
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Joe.Ghalam@...l.com
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, Clifford.Wichmann@...l.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: macvlan: Fix device ref leak when purging bc_queue

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 04:09:56PM +0000, Joe.Ghalam@...l.com wrote:
> I agree with this change, but the same purge would be needed for the macvlan_dellink() call also. 

I don't think that's necessary because as long as the master
device is still around it will continue to process the broadcast
queue, thus removing any reference counts held.

It's only when the queue is purged that we run into trouble.

Cheers,
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