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Message-Id: <20190504.001025.1191902881190952783.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sat, 04 May 2019 00:10:25 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: wenbin.zeng@...il.com Cc: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, bfields@...ldses.org, jlayton@...nel.org, trond.myklebust@...merspace.com, anna.schumaker@...app.com, wenbinzeng@...cent.com, dsahern@...il.com, nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, willy@...radead.org, edumazet@...gle.com, jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, tyhicks@...onical.com, chuck.lever@...cle.com, neilb@...e.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] netns: add netns_evict into netns_operations From: Wenbin Zeng <wenbin.zeng@...il.com> Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 14:42:24 +0800 > The newly added netns_evict() shall be called when the netns inode being > evicted. It provides another path to release netns refcounts, previously > netns_put() is the only choice, but it is not able to release all netns > refcount, for example, a rpc client holds two netns refcounts, these > refcounts are supposed to be released when the rpc client is freed, but > the code to free rpc client is normally triggered by put() callback only > when netns refcount gets to 0, specifically: > refcount=0 -> cleanup_net() -> ops_exit_list -> free rpc client > But netns refcount will never get to 0 before rpc client gets freed, to > break the deadlock, the code to free rpc client can be put into the newly > added netns_evict. > > Signed-off-by: Wenbin Zeng <wenbinzeng@...cent.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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