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From: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/5] batman-adv: Prevent duplicated softif_vlan entry
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 20:00:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41525005.Pqo06DrDOh@rousseau> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180812190445.28013-4-sven@narfation.org>

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On Monday, 13 August 2018 03:04:43 HKT Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> +       /* adding sysfs can fail but it is now to late to handle it.
> +        * it can also not be in the spinlock section due to the sleeping
> +        * behavior of the sysfs functions and the fs_reclaim lock
> +        */
> +       batadv_sysfs_add_vlan(bat_priv->soft_iface, vlan);
> +
>         /* add a new TT local entry. This one will be marked with the
> NOPURGE * flag
>          */

Why is it too late to handle the error ? As long as this function returns
an error to the caller the kernel will destroy the interface, ultimately
allowing batman to free anything related to this interface ?

Having debugged some nasty TT VLAN bugs which were due to missing
error handling in the VLAN creation routine make me a little nervous
about the proposed approach ...

Cheers,
Marek

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-06 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-12 19:04 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 0/5] batman-adv: Missing list checks for *list_add* Sven Eckelmann
2018-08-12 19:04 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/5] batman-adv: Prevent duplicated gateway_node entry Sven Eckelmann
2018-09-06 11:41   ` Marek Lindner
2018-08-12 19:04 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/5] batman-adv: Prevent duplicated nc_node entry Sven Eckelmann
2018-09-06 11:45   ` Marek Lindner
2018-08-12 19:04 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/5] batman-adv: Prevent duplicated softif_vlan entry Sven Eckelmann
2018-09-06 12:00   ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2018-08-12 19:04 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 4/5] batman-adv: Prevent duplicated global TT entry Sven Eckelmann
2018-09-06 12:03   ` Marek Lindner
2018-08-12 19:04 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 5/5] batman-adv: Prevent duplicated tvlv handler Sven Eckelmann
2018-09-06 12:05   ` Marek Lindner

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