netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipmr: ip6mr: Create new sockopt to clear mfc cache only

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Date:   Sat, 02 Feb 2019 19:42:24 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:     callum.sinclair@...iedtelesis.co.nz
Cc:     kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmr: ip6mr: Create new sockopt to clear mfc cache only

From: Callum Sinclair <callum.sinclair@...iedtelesis.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 09:52:09 +1300

>  
> -/* Close the multicast socket, and clear the vif tables etc */
> -static void mroute_clean_tables(struct mr_table *mrt, bool all)
> +/* Clear the vif tables */
> +static void mroute_clean_cache(struct mr_table *mrt, bool all)
>  {
> -	struct net *net = read_pnet(&mrt->net);
>  	struct mr_mfc *c, *tmp;
>  	struct mfc_cache *cache;
> -	LIST_HEAD(list);
> -	int i;
> -
> -	/* Shut down all active vif entries */
> -	for (i = 0; i < mrt->maxvif; i++) {
> -		if (!all && (mrt->vif_table[i].flags & VIFF_STATIC))
> -			continue;
> -		vif_delete(mrt, i, 0, &list);
> -	}
> -	unregister_netdevice_many(&list);
> +	struct net *net = read_pnet(&mrt->net);

Please do not change the order of local variables like this, you're breaking
the correct reverse christmas tree ordering of longest to shortest line for
local variable declarations.

Thanks.