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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	matthltc@us.ibm.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] veth: don't free priv->status until dev->destructor (v2)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:46:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090724124614.6acc5054@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090626162418.GA24828@us.ibm.com>

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:24:18 -0500
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Based on the commit msg on ae0e8e82205c903978a79ebf5e31c670b61fa5b4, it looks

>  	ether_setup(dev);
> @@ -306,7 +320,7 @@ static void veth_setup(struct net_device *dev)
>  	dev->netdev_ops = &veth_netdev_ops;
>  	dev->ethtool_ops = &veth_ethtool_ops;
>  	dev->features |= NETIF_F_LLTX;
> -	dev->destructor = free_netdev;
> +	dev->destructor = veth_dev_free;
>

This is still going to oops if sysfs statistics referenced
after module unload because module is unloaded (code is gone)
and veth_dev_free no longer exists.

I'll respin the original patch (using free_netdev) and fix
the statistics complaint.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-26 16:24 [PATCH 1/1] veth: don't free priv->status until dev->destructor (v2) Serge E. Hallyn
2009-07-15 15:50 ` David Miller
2009-07-20 21:25   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-07-22 15:55     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-07-24 19:46 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-08-05  6:40   ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-05 17:10     ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-05 22:43       ` Eric W. Biederman

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