netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: dcb: flush lingering app table entries for unregistered devices

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Date:   Fri, 25 Feb 2022 10:50:11 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
        john.fastabend@...il.com, petrm@...dia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dcb: flush lingering app table entries for
 unregistered devices

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (master)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:01:54 +0200 you wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken (and I don't think I am), the way in which the
> dcbnl_ops work is that drivers call dcb_ieee_setapp() and this populates
> the application table with dynamically allocated struct dcb_app_type
> entries that are kept in the module-global dcb_app_list.
> 
> However, nobody keeps exact track of these entries, and although
> dcb_ieee_delapp() is supposed to remove them, nobody does so when the
> interface goes away (example: driver unbinds from device). So the
> dcb_app_list will contain lingering entries with an ifindex that no
> longer matches any device in dcb_app_lookup().
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] net: dcb: flush lingering app table entries for unregistered devices
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/91b0383fef06

You are awesome, thank you!
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