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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net
Subject: Re: tun netns BUG()
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:01:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090705.190137.148499351.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090703152547.GA28755@gondor.apana.org.au>

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 23:25:47 +0800

> Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Not so.
>> 
>> unregister_netdevice
>>  rollback_registered
>>    tun_net_unit
>>      __tun_detach.
>> 
>> 
>> Further we need rtnl_lock around __tun_detach.
> 
> No we don't, tfile->count prevents this from occuring.  The async
> path will only __tun_detach if the count hits zero, in which case
> the first if clause in tun_chr_close will fail.  Conversely, if
> we're in the first if clause in tun_chr_close, then the async
> path either didn't execute at all or did not call __tun_detach.

I've applied Herbert's patch, thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-06  2:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04 19:05 tun netns BUG() David Woodhouse
2009-06-05  1:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-05  8:42   ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-05  9:17     ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-05 23:24       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-06  7:06         ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-08  7:44           ` David Miller
2009-07-03  8:35         ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-03  9:03           ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-03 14:52             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-07-03 15:25               ` Herbert Xu
2009-07-06  2:01                 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-06-05 23:20     ` Eric W. Biederman

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